Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

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'A compelling and meticulously researched account ... McCandless has made exceptional use of a wide variety of primary materials, including letters, personal papers, diaries, official documents, parish records, pamphlets, and newspapers, to reconstruct the impact of tropical diseases in the lowcountry ... This is a valuable and provocative study and will appeal to those interested in southern history as well as the history of medicine.' Shauna Devine, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences '... until now, few authors have been able to intertwine the economic, medical, and environmental threads so successfully. One recent exception who managed to set the bar high is William Dusinberre, author of ... Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps ... McCandless has cleared that same bar with apparent ease. We can only hope that their impressive works inspire more such compelling interdisciplinary studies, for the Lowcountry and beyond.' Peter H. Wood, Southern Spaces 'McCandless nicely balances attention to rural plantations and their urban entrepot, demonstrating how the spector of yellow fever and other afflictions strained and recast Charlestonians' lifestyles, customs, and commercial aspirations.' Michael D. Thompson, The South Carolina Historical Magazine