{"product_id":"slavery-disease-and-suffering-in-the-southern-lowcountry-paperback-9781107656185","title":"Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107656185","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSlavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores how disease and human responses to it influenced the South and the United States.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter McCandless (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107656185, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 January 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e324 pages, 6 b\/w illus.  4 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'McCandless nicely balances attention to rural plantations and their urban entrepôt, demonstrating how the spector of yellow fever and other afflictions strained and recast Charlestonians' lifestyles, customs, and commercial aspirations.' Michael D. Thompson, The South Carolina Historical Magazine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Talk about Suffering: 1. Rhetoric and reality\u003cbr\u003e 2. From paradise to hospital\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'A scene of diseases'\u003cbr\u003e 4. Wooden horse\u003cbr\u003e 5. Revolutionary fever\u003cbr\u003e 6. Stranger's disease\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'A merciful provision of the creator'\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Combating Pestilence: 8. 'I wish that I had studied physick'\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'I know nothing of this disease'\u003cbr\u003e 10. Providence, prudence, and patience\u003cbr\u003e 11. Buying the smallpox\u003cbr\u003e 12. Commerce, contagion, and cleanliness\u003cbr\u003e 13. A migratory species\u003cbr\u003e 14. Melancholy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Slavery \u0026amp; abolition of slavery [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Slavery \u0026amp; abolition of slavery\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Slavery%20\u0026amp;%20abolition%20of%20slavery%20%5BHBTS%5D%22\"\u003eHBTS\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265834504472,"sku":"9781107656185","price":25.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107656185i.jpg?v=1694504785","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/slavery-disease-and-suffering-in-the-southern-lowcountry-paperback-9781107656185","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}