Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry
- Author/Creator:
- McCandless, Peter
- Publication/Creation:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry / Peter McCandless
- Series Titles:
- Cambridge studies on the American South
Cambridge studies on the American South.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Diseases--Social aspects--South Carolina--History
Diseases and history--South Carolina--History
Plantation life--South Carolina--History
Environmental health--South Carolina--History
Disease--ethnology
Public Health--history
Disease--etiology
Environment
Health Status Disparities
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
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--History--1775-1865
South Carolina
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Part I: 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" -- Part II: 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.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xxi, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990017256750302486
- ISBN:
- 9781107004153 (hardback : alk. paper)
1107004152 (hardback : alk. paper) - OCLC Number:
- 694283181
- Barcode:
- 010002496312
070000136792
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