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Cambridge Studies on the American South

Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

Peter (Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, College of Charleston, South Carolina) McCandless

Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

Cambridge Studies on the American South

Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

Cambridge Studies on the American South: Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

 

"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"-

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In 1776, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Professor McCandless argues that the two were intimately connected, examining how people created, combated, avoided and denied disease; and how disease and human responses to it influenced the region, the South and the United States.

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9781107004153
Pagina's
324
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Cambridge Studies on the American South
NUR
680
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1
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Hardback
Taal
Engels
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Cambridge University Press

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