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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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Príomhchruthaitheoir: McCandless, Peter
Údar corparáideach: ebrary, Inc
Formáid: Leictreonach Ríomhleabhar
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Sraith:Cambridge studies on the American South.
Ábhair:
Diseases > Social aspects > South Carolina > History.
Diseases and history > South Carolina > History.
Plantation life > South Carolina > History.
Environmental health > South Carolina > History.
South Carolina > Social conditions.
Charleston Region (S.C.) > Social conditions.
South Carolina > Economic conditions.
Charleston Region (S.C.) > Economic conditions.
South Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
South Carolina > History > 1775-1865.
Electronic books.
Rochtain ar líne:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Clár na nÁbhar:
  • 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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