Necropolis : Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana HistoryWinner of the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities“A brilliant book…This transformative work is a pivotal addition to the scholarship on American slavery.”-Annette Gordon-Reed“A stunning account of ‘high-risk, high-reward’ profiteering in the yellow fever-ridden Crescent City…a world in which a deadly virus altered every aspect of a brutal social system, exacerbating savage inequalities of enslavement, race, and class.”-John Fabian Witt, author of American Contagions“Olivarius’s new perspectives on yellow fever, immunocapitalism, and the politics of acclimation…will influence a generation of scholars to come on the intersections of racism, slavery, and public health.”-The LancetIn antebellum New Orleans, at the heart of America’s slave and cotton kingdoms, epidemics of yellow fever kil