Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715

by Paul Kelton

Book Overview

Epidemics and Enslavement is a groundbreaking examination of the relationship between the Indian slave trade and the spread of Old World diseases in the colonial southeastern United States. Paul Kelton scrupulously traces the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of the Southeast and concludes that, while indigenous peoples suffered from an array of ailments before contact, Natives had their most significant experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803227914
• ISBN13: 9780803227910
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"