Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

by Peter McCandless

Book Overview

On 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107656184
• ISBN13: 9781107656185
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"