Searching for Dr. Harris
This is the untold story of Dr. J. D. Harris (1833-1884), an African American physician whose life and career straddled enormous changes for Black professionals and the practice of medicine. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Harris served as a contract surgeon to the Union army and transitioned...
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| description | This is the untold story of Dr. J. D. Harris (1833-1884), an African American physician whose life and career straddled enormous changes for Black professionals and the practice of medicine. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Harris served as a contract surgeon to the Union army and transitioned to a similar post under the Freedmen's Bureau, treating Black troops and freedpeople in Virginia. Margaret Humphreys not only narrates what we know about Harris but offers context to his remarkable journey, including how incredible it was that a young man born into freedom in a slave state learned to read when literacy for Black people was illegal. He was one of very few African Americans to become a doctor before Howard Medical School opened in the 1870s, a fact that both reveals the structural barriers to medical education for Black Americans and highlights how those structures weakened in the 1860s. Drawing on census records, court records, Civil War and Reconstruction documents from the National Archives, African American newspapers, and more, this book is a revealing look at the history not only of medicine in the southern United States but also of race and citizenship during one of the nation's most tumultuous eras. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1474412026-04-30T10:43:50Z Searching for Dr. Harris Humphreys, Margaret African American colonization in Haiti African American physicians in the Civil War African American physicians in Reconstruction American Missionary Association Black medical students in Civil War America Black settlement in antebellum Iowa Charles Chestnutt Cicero Harris Colored Conventions Elizabeth W. Harris Fayetteville, N.C Free Blacks in antebellum North Carolina Fredericksburg Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital Freedmen’s Bureau Howard Hospital Howard Medical School Howard’s Grove Hospital Ira Russell J.D. Harris, MD John Brown’s Raid John Mercer Langston Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Robert Harris St. Elizabeth’s Hospital William Harris Virginia Governor’s election 1869 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBT Biography: science, technology and medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies This is the untold story of Dr. J. D. Harris (1833-1884), an African American physician whose life and career straddled enormous changes for Black professionals and the practice of medicine. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Harris served as a contract surgeon to the Union army and transitioned to a similar post under the Freedmen's Bureau, treating Black troops and freedpeople in Virginia. Margaret Humphreys not only narrates what we know about Harris but offers context to his remarkable journey, including how incredible it was that a young man born into freedom in a slave state learned to read when literacy for Black people was illegal. He was one of very few African Americans to become a doctor before Howard Medical School opened in the 1870s, a fact that both reveals the structural barriers to medical education for Black Americans and highlights how those structures weakened in the 1860s. Drawing on census records, court records, Civil War and Reconstruction documents from the National Archives, African American newspapers, and more, this book is a revealing look at the history not only of medicine in the southern United States but also of race and citizenship during one of the nation's most tumultuous eras. 2024-11-06T04:06:33Z 2024-11-06T04:06:33Z 2024-11-05T14:57:08Z 2024 book ONIX_20241105_9781469682341_16 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94191 9781469682341 9781469680071 9781469680088 9781469680057 9781469682358 9781469680064 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/147441 eng Studies in Social Medicine open access image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94191/1/9781469682341.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94191/1/9781469682341.pdf The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469680088_Humphreys 10.5149/9781469680088_Humphreys f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 9781469682341 9781469680071 9781469680088 9781469680057 9781469682358 9781469680064 The University of North Carolina Press 322 Chapel Hill open access |
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| topic | African American colonization in Haiti African American physicians in the Civil War African American physicians in Reconstruction American Missionary Association Black medical students in Civil War America Black settlement in antebellum Iowa Charles Chestnutt Cicero Harris Colored Conventions Elizabeth W. Harris Fayetteville, N.C Free Blacks in antebellum North Carolina Fredericksburg Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital Freedmen’s Bureau Howard Hospital Howard Medical School Howard’s Grove Hospital Ira Russell J.D. Harris, MD John Brown’s Raid John Mercer Langston Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Robert Harris St. Elizabeth’s Hospital William Harris Virginia Governor’s election 1869 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBT Biography: science, technology and medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies |
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