A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19 | Edna Bonhomme Isabel Wilkerson Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's

Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem

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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19 | Edna Bonhomme Isabel Wilkerson Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy'sA deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankinds battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender linesin the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body. Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout history,