Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

by Peter McCandless
ISBN-10:
1107656184
ISBN-13:
9781107656185
Pub. Date:
01/30/2014
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
1107656184
ISBN-13:
9781107656185
Pub. Date:
01/30/2014
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

by Peter McCandless
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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781107656185
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/30/2014
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 324
Sales rank: 326,401
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.
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