Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

Description:

"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"--

subjects: Diseases,  Plantation life,  Diseases and history,  Economic conditions,  Social conditions,  Environmental health,  History,  HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775),  South carolina, social conditions,  South carolina, economic conditions,  United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775,  South carolina, history,  Health, history,  Wealth,  Disease,  African Americans,  Social Problems

Places: South Carolina,  Charleston Region (S.C.)

Times: 1775-1865,  Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775