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Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (2011)

McCandless, Peter (Author)

Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2011
Language: English

ISBN: 9781107004153

Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xxi + 297 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index

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Disease and diseases Yellow fever Slavery Malaria Great Britain, colonies 17th century South Carolina (U.S.) Georgia (U.S.) North Carolina (U.S.) Florida (U.S.)

On the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted largely from the dominance of rice cultivation on plantations using imported African slave labor. This development began in the coastal lands near Charleston, South Carolina, around the end of the seventeenth century. Rice plantations spread north to the Cape Fear region of North Carolina and south to Georgia and northeast Florida in the late colonial period. The book examines perceptions and realities of the lowcountry disease environment; how the lowcountry became notorious for its "tropical" fevers, notably malaria and yellow fever; how people combated, avoided, or perversely denied the suffering they caused; and how diseases and human responses to them influenced not only the lowcountry and the South, but the United States, even helping to secure American independence.

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Review Downs, Jim (2013) Review of "Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry". Social History of Medicine (pp. 307-309). unapi

Review Hogarth, Rana Asali (2012) Review of "Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry". Medical History (pp. 404-405). unapi

Review Young, Jeffrey Robert (2012) Review of "Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 473-474). unapi

Review Wood, Bradford J. (2012) Review of "Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry". Journal of Southern History (p. 710). unapi

Review Lockley, Tim (2012) Review of "Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry". Journal of the Early Republic (p. 168). unapi

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