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Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (Hardcover, New)
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Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
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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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