04314nam 22008172 450 991045970350332120151005020622.01-107-22092-01-139-06377-41-283-11270-197866131127051-139-07616-71-139-08299-X1-139-07845-31-139-08072-50-511-97742-51-139-07043-6(CKB)2670000000083336(EBL)691953(OCoLC)726734804(SSID)ssj0000525708(PQKBManifestationID)11372781(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525708(PQKBWorkID)10506836(PQKB)11182529(UkCbUP)CR9780511977428(MiAaPQ)EBC691953(Au-PeEL)EBL691953(CaPaEBR)ebr10470723(CaONFJC)MIL311270(EXLCZ)99267000000008333620101013d2011|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSlavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry /Peter McCandless[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2011.1 online resource (xxi, 297 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies on the American SouthTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-65618-4 1-107-00415-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Cambridge studies on the American South.Slavery, Disease, & Suffering in the Southern LowcountryDiseasesSocial aspectsSouth CarolinaHistoryDiseases and historySouth CarolinaHistoryPlantation lifeSouth CarolinaHistoryEnvironmental healthSouth CarolinaHistorySouth CarolinaSocial conditionsCharleston Region (S.C.)Social conditionsSouth CarolinaEconomic conditionsCharleston Region (S.C.)Economic conditionsSouth CarolinaHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775South CarolinaHistory1775-1865DiseasesSocial aspectsHistory.Diseases and historyHistory.Plantation lifeHistory.Environmental healthHistory.362.109757McCandless Peter1040905UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910459703503321Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry2464105UNINA