LEADER 04349nam 22008292 450 001 9910807621903321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-22092-0 010 $a1-139-06377-4 010 $a1-283-11270-1 010 $a9786613112705 010 $a1-139-07616-7 010 $a1-139-08299-X 010 $a1-139-07845-3 010 $a1-139-08072-5 010 $a0-511-97742-5 010 $a1-139-07043-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000083336 035 $a(EBL)691953 035 $a(OCoLC)726734804 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525708 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11372781 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525708 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10506836 035 $a(PQKB)11182529 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511977428 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC691953 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL691953 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10470723 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL311270 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000083336 100 $a20101013d2011|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSlavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry /$fPeter McCandless$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 297 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies on the American South 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-65618-4 311 $a1-107-00415-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 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. 330 $aOn the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted largely from the dominance of rice cultivation on plantations using imported African slave labor. This development began in the coastal lands near Charleston, South Carolina, around the end of the seventeenth century. Rice plantations spread north to the Cape Fear region of North Carolina and south to Georgia and northeast Florida in the late colonial period. The book examines perceptions and realities of the lowcountry disease environment; how the lowcountry became notorious for its 'tropical' fevers, notably malaria and yellow fever; how people combated, avoided or perversely denied the suffering they caused; and how diseases and human responses to them influenced not only the lowcountry and the South, but the United States, even helping to secure American independence. 410 0$aCambridge studies on the American South. 517 3 $aSlavery, Disease, & Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry 606 $aDiseases$xSocial aspects$zSouth Carolina$xHistory 606 $aDiseases and history$zSouth Carolina$xHistory 606 $aPlantation life$zSouth Carolina$xHistory 606 $aEnvironmental health$zSouth Carolina$xHistory 607 $aSouth Carolina$xSocial conditions 607 $aCharleston Region (S.C.)$xSocial conditions 607 $aSouth Carolina$xEconomic conditions 607 $aCharleston Region (S.C.)$xEconomic conditions 607 $aSouth Carolina$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aSouth Carolina$xHistory$y1775-1865 615 0$aDiseases$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aDiseases and history$xHistory. 615 0$aPlantation life$xHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmental health$xHistory. 676 $a362.109757 686 $aHIS036020$2bisacsh 700 $aMcCandless$b Peter$01634798 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807621903321 996 $aSlavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry$93975195 997 $aUNINA