In this episode, we speak with historian and researcher Elise Mitchell about pandemics in history, their impact on marginalized populations - particularly the enslaved - and the linkages to the social impact of the current COVID-19 crisis. 
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Readings & Resources

Elise Mitchell - "The Shortages May Be Worse Than the Disease - Humanity's Long History of Making Epidemics Worse" 
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/humanitys-long-history-of-making-epidemics-worse/607780/

Dayle B. DeLancey - "Vaccinating Freedom: Smallpox Prevention and the Discourses of African American Citizenship in Antebellum Philadelphia" 
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.5323/jafriamerhist.95.3-4.0296

Ida Altman - "The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America"
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/revolt-of-enriquillo-and-the-historiography-of-early-spanish-america/AE46A808BFFB70C9DCE84F276821E650
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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
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41. Pandemic & Its Discontents w/Elise Mitchell - Left POCket Project Podcast

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