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...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies on the American South.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry |h [electronic resource] / |c Peter McCandless. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge ; |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2011. | ||
| 300 | |a xxi, 297 p. : |b ill., maps. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Cambridge studies on the American South | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Palo Alto, Calif. : |c ebrary, |d 2013. |n Available via World Wide Web. |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Diseases |x Social aspects |z South Carolina |x History. | |
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