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Author:

McCandless, Peter.

Title:

Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry / Peter McCandless.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xxi, 297 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Diseases--History.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

Series:

Cambridge studies on the American South.

ISBN:

1107004152 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781107004153 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)694283181

LCCN:

2010051694

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)