Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry /
[Book]
Peter McCandless
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011
xxi, 297 p. :
ill., maps ;
24 cm
Cambridge studies on the American South
Includes bibliographical references and index
Pt. 1. Talk about suffering -- Rhetoric and reality -- From paradise to hospital -- "A scene of diseases" -- Wooden horse -- Revolutionary fever -- Stranger's disease -- "A merciful provision of the creator" -- pt. 2. Combating pestilence -- "I wish that I had studied physick" -- "I know nothing of this disease" -- Providence, prudence, and patience -- Buying the smallpox -- Commerce, contagion, and cleanliness -- A migratory species -- Melancholy
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"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"--Provided by publisher
Diseases and history-- South Carolina-- History
Diseases-- Social aspects-- South Carolina-- History
Environmental health-- South Carolina-- History
Plantation life-- South Carolina-- History
Charleston Region (S.C.), Economic conditions
Charleston Region (S.C.), Social conditions
South Carolina, Economic conditions
South Carolina, History, 1775-1865
South Carolina, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775