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a beautiful Delta town steeped in secrets and a scarred past
at turns ferocious and poetic—and sometimes both at once
the wealth of intimate details
and the zoo
Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Young Adult Fiction Family - Orphans & Foster Homes African American & Black Diversity & Multicultural a beautiful Delta town steepedHow race became embedded in a medical instrument In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical devicethe spirometerto show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared to confirm the finding, which was then applied to argue that slaves were unfit for freedom. What is
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