Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools

Abstract

struggle” (p. 223). Perhaps limited by the selection of his primary sources, Escott’s study gives little attention to the opinions on the subject by two other groups: women and Civil War veterans. How did women, especially the Black and white suffragists, think about the issue of Black suffrage? For Civil War soldiers, William T. Sherman’s anti-Black suffrage view was extensively used by northern Democratic newspapers. What about ordinary white soldiers who had fought the war shoulder to shoulder with Black troops? Did the war change them as much as it had changed Lincoln? And what about Black soldiers? These largely untouched questions may warrant a new study.