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Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (Paperback) Loot Price: R924
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Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (Paperback): Peter McCandless

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

Peter McCandless

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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
Release date: 2014
First published: 2011
Authors: Peter McCandless (Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus)
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-65618-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 1-107-65618-4
Barcode: 9781107656185

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