American Journal of Public Health Series: 400 Years Since Jamestown
2019
This American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) series focuses on health and racial issues for Black Americans since 1619, the pivotal year in which Jamestown, VA, was founded and chattel slavery began in the U.S. This series of articles examines topics ranging from occupational heat stress affecting people of color and the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, to the impact of history on Black people’s health in 2019. Also related to and contextualizing this series is the earlier AJPH article, “400 Years of Inequality Since 1619.” With this series, AJPH joins several other research and news organizations deeply examining the historical events of 1619 and its present-day implications. The New York Times, for example, is publishing a weekly podcast examining the broader effects of slavery on the lives of Black Americans – also called “1619.”
Series articles include:
- “A Widespread Superstition”: The Purported Invulnerability of Workers of Color to Occupational Heat Stress
- A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793
- A Contemporary Black Perspective on the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia
- The Myth of Innate Racial Differences Between White and Black People’s Bodies: Lessons from the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Black Maternal and Infant Health: Historical Legacies of Slavery
- The Burdens of Race and History on Black People’s Health 400 Years After Jamestown
- Toward a Historically Informed Analysis of Racial Health Disparities Since 1619
American Journal of Public Health Series: 400 Years Since Jamestown
Source:
AJPH 400 Years Since Jamestown. American Journal of Public Health 2019; 109(10): 1329-1349. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/109/10.