Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry - Peter (Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus McCandless - Bog

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.