Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry
By: Peter McCandless
Series: Cambridge studies on the American South
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107004153
Subjects: Diseases; Plantation life; Diseases and history; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Environmental health; History; HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Description: "In 1776, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. This book argues that the two were intimately connected, examining how people created, combated, avoided, and denied the virulent disease environment; and how disease and human responses to it influenced the region, the South, and the United States"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Talk about suffering; title: Rhetoric and reality; title: From paradise to hospital; title: "A scene of diseases"; title: Wooden horse; title: Revolutionary fever; title: Stranger's disease; title: "A merciful provision of the creator"; title: pt. 2. Combating pestilence; title: "I wish that I had studied physick"; title: "I know nothing of this disease"; title: Providence, prudence, and patience; title: Buying the smallpox; title: Commerce, contagion, and cleanliness; title: A migratory species; title: Melancholy.