Book presentation of 'The Yellow Demon of Fever. Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade', by Manuel Barcia

The UK celebrates Black History Month annually throughout October. The Instituto Cervantes in Leeds and Manchester will join in theis recognition and for this reason, they have invited the historian Manuel Barcia, Professor and Chair of Global History from the University of Leeds, to introduce his latest book, The Yellow Demon of Fever. Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press, 2020), a pioneering story about how agents involved in one way or another in the slave trade influenced the growth and spread of medical knowledge. As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives.