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Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCandless, Peter
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2011]
Series:Cambridge studies on the American South.
Subjects:
Diseases > Social aspects > South Carolina > History.
Diseases and history > South Carolina > History.
Plantation life > South Carolina > History.
Environmental health > South Carolina > History.
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.
Disease > ethnology.
Public Health > history.
Disease > etiology.
Environment.
Health Status Disparities.
History, 18th Century.
History, 19th Century.
South Carolina.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Rhetoric and reality
  • From paradise to hospital
  • "A scene of diseases"
  • Wooden horse
  • Revolutionary fever
  • Stranger's disease
  • "A merciful provision of the creator"
  • "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.