With the abolition of the Danish slave trade in the early nineteenth century, slave health had become a central concern in the Danish West Indies for plantation owners and colonial administrators who were no longer able to replace a population decimated by high mortality rates with slaves from Africa. In For the Health of the Enslaved, Niklas Thode Jensen offers a comprehensive look at the health conditions of the enslaved at that time and how health care policy fueled an ongoing power struggle between planters, administrators, and the enslaved in the waning years of human bondage in the New World.
Niklas Thode Jensenis assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Copenhagen.
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Subject and Research Questions
Definitions
Methods and Structures
Hypotheses and Theories
The Source material
Historiography
Chapter 2: Context Danish, British and French West Indian History, Geography and Ecology
Demography in West Indian Enslaved Populations
The Development of Western Medicine and the Health Service on St Croix
The Medicine of the Enslaved: Obeah and Herbs
Chapter 3: Diseases, Therapies, and Causes of Death
The Diseases of the Enslaved Workers and the Doctors' Therapies
Seasonal Morbidity
Causes of Death among Enslaved Plantation Workers, 1842–47
Slave Laws and Health Factors
Chapter 4: Three Case Studies of the Health Policy of the Danish Colonial Administration The Puzzle of Nutrition: Requirements, Rations, Crops and Natural Resources
Smallpox, Inocu
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