TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCandless,Peter
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry
T2  - Cambridge studies on the American South
AV  - RA418.3.U6 M35 2011eb
U1  - 362.109757 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - History
KW  - Diseases and history
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Environmental health
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Charleston Region (S.C.)
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - 1775-1865
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "In 1776, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. This book argues that the two were intimately connected, examining how people created, combated, avoided, and denied the virulent disease environment; and how disease and human responses to it influenced the region, the South, and the United States"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10470723
ER  -