The yellow demon of fever : fighting disease in the nineteenth-century transatlantic slave trade / Manuel Barcia.

New Haven, NY : Yale University Press, [2020]

xi, 281 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A beautiful spot for a grave" : prophylaxis and prevention in the slave-trade contact zones -- The blood of thousands : slave traders and the fight against disease in the age of abolition -- Cruising for slaves and boating up rivers : anti-slave trade patrols and the fight against disease across the atlantic -- "Such an asylum of wretchedness" : anti-slave trade reception centers, hospitals, and cemeteries -- A shared struggle : cooperation, learning, and knowledge exchange in the Atlantic world.