Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

AvPeter McCandless,Peter Mccandless

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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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Utgivningsdatum2011-04-11
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt650 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies on the American South
Antal sidor324
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107004153
UtmärkelserSHEAR Book Prize 2012

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Peter McCandless received his Ph.D. in Modern British and African History from the University of Wisconsin in 1974 and joined the history faculty of the College of Charleston that year. He received the college's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1985 and was named a Governor's Distinguished Professor in 1998. He is the author of Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial to the Progressive Eras (1996) and numerous journal articles.

Part I. Talk about Suffering: 1. Rhetoric and reality; 2. From paradise to hospital; 3. 'A scene of diseases'; 4. Wooden horse; 5. Revolutionary fever; 6. Stranger's disease; 7. 'A merciful provision of the creator'; Part II. Combating Pestilence: 8. 'I wish that I had studied physick'; 9. 'I know nothing of this disease'; 10. Providence, prudence, and patience; 11. Buying the smallpox; 12. Commerce, contagion, and cleanliness; 13. A migratory species; 14. Melancholy.

'A compelling and meticulously researched account … McCandless has made exceptional use of a wide variety of primary materials, including letters, personal papers, diaries, official documents, parish records, pamphlets, and newspapers, to reconstruct the impact of tropical diseases in the lowcountry … This is a valuable and provocative study and will appeal to those interested in southern history as well as the history of medicine.' Shauna Devine, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences