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

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Online-Ressource (xxi, 297 p) : ill., maps

Englisch

pt. 1. Talk about sufferingRhetoric 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

978-1-107-00415-3 (hardback : alk. paper)

978-1-107-00415-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2011

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

978-1-139-08072-9 (e-book)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

RA418.3.U6

362.109757 ; 306.3620975     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: 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 ; Diseases -- Social aspects -- South Carolina -- History ; Plantation life -- South Carolina -- History ; Environmental health -- South Carolina -- History ; Diseases and history -- South Carolina -- History

MeSH: Public Health ; Disease ; Environment ; Health Status Disparities ; History, 18th Century ; History, 19th Century ; Disease

Charleston Region (S.C.) ; Social conditions ; Diseases ; Social aspects ; South Carolina ; History ; Diseases and history ; South Carolina ; History ; Environmental health ; South Carolina ; History ; Plantation life ; South Carolina ; History ; South Carolina ; Economic conditions ; South Carolina ; Social conditions ; Electronic books

"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"--