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

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At the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was once the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North The united states. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted in large part from the dominance of rice cultivation on plantations the usage of imported African slave labor. This development started in the coastal lands near Charleston, South Carolina, across 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, have shyed away from, 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 US, even helping to protected American independence.

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