Sean Smith

Co-editor of Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery (LSU Press, 2021).
Rice History Ph.D. Race, slavery, science, and medicine in the Atlantic World.

[Sean Smith @smith318]

Check out Nora Doyle's review of Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery in the latest @JCWE1 : https://t.co/xv8JcVdhlE

[Eddie Valentin @evalentin25]

With Juneteenth and other celebrations of emancipation, I always try to remind people that emancipation was a complex process rather than a single event.

[UNC Press @UNC_Press]

New on UNC Press Presents Podcast via @NewBooksNetwork, Chris Willoughby @AntiquatedMeds discusses MASTERS OF HEALTH: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools with @ClaireClarkPhD (stream or listen via @spotifypodcasts @ApplePodcasts @Stitcher)
https://t.co/D27WxhpvCP

[Sean Smith @smith318]

@wjoneshistory The yearbook is named after it!

[Sean Smith @smith318]

@evalentin25 Loved the fan cheers: "It's called soccer!"

[Sean Smith @smith318]

But I've been struck by a deep feeling of loss all week as I flip back and forth, trying to connect white families with the Black people they owned. So many people devalued in their own lives and now so difficult to recover. 8/8

[Sean Smith @smith318]

I've been working with the 1850 US census this week, and the emotional impact I've felt from what first appeared to be a dry, statistical source has been deeply striking. 1/

[Sean Smith @smith318]

Many people have noticed this before of course, and I knew that this situation makes reconstructing genealogies incredibly more difficult for descendants of enslaved Black Americans. 7/

[NACBS @TheNACBS]

Climate and Culture in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic #s30 #nacbs2022 @FredrikAlbritt1 @smith318 @KDPluymers

[Sean Smith @smith318]

@wjoneshistory #houproblems

[Sean Smith @smith318]

@AntiquatedMeds Congrats Chris! Looking forward to reading it!