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historian Jim Downs of Connecticut College, writes in his book Sick From Freedom, that as many as 1/4 of freed slaves died from disease and starvation. This health crisis was ignored because the North didn't want to admit to the failures of Reconstruction and because the South was impoverished both in resources and empathy for the blacks.