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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| 格式: | 電子 電子書 |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| 叢編: | Cambridge studies on the American South.
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| 在線閱讀: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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書本目錄:
- 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.