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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCandless, Peter.

Series:

Cambridge studies on the American South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diseases--Social aspects--South Carolina--History.

Diseases and history--South Carolina--History.

Plantation life--South Carolina--History.

Environmental health--South Carolina--History.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Environmental health.

History.

Plantation life.

Diseases and history.

Diseases--Social aspects.

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.

South Carolina--History--1775-1865.

Physical Description:

xxi, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107004153

1107004152

OCLC:

694283181