Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry

"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 infl...

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Auteur principal: McCandless, Peter
Collectivité auteur: ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Collection:Cambridge studies on the American South.
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Accès en ligne:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Résumé:"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"--
Description matérielle:xxi, 297 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.