Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry [electronic resource] / Peter McCandless.
2011
RA418.3.U6 M35 2011
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Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry [electronic resource] / Peter McCandless.
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9781107004153 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781139080729 (electronic book)
9781139080729 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 297 p. : ill., maps.
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RA418.3.U6 M35 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.109757
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cambridge studies on the American South.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.