Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry

ISBN: 9781107656185 出版年：2011 页码：325 Peter McCandless Cambridge University Press

Part I. Talk about Suffering: 1. Rhetoric and reality 2. From paradise to hospital 3. 'A scene of diseases' 4. Wooden horse 5. Revolutionary fever 6. Stranger's disease 7. 'A merciful provision of the creator' Part II. Combating Pestilence: 8. 'I wish that I had studied physick' 9. 'I know nothing of this disease' 10. Providence, prudence, and patience 11. Buying the smallpox 12. Commerce, contagion, and cleanliness 13. A migratory species 14. Melancholy.