Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 14 (Indians of the Southeast) Pdf

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Release: 2009-07-01
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0803227914
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Epidemics and Enslavement is a groundbreaking examination of the relationship between the Indian slave trade and the spread of Old World diseases in the colonial southeastern United States. Paul Kelton scrupulously traces the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of the Southeast and concludes that, while indigenous peoples suffered from an array of ailments before contact, Natives had their most significant experience with new germs long after initial contacts in the sixteenth century. In fact, Kelton places the first region-wide epidemic of smallpox in the 1690s and attributes its spread to the Indian slave trade. From 1696 to 1700, Native communities from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi Valley suffered catastrophic death tolls because of smallpox. The other diseases that then followed in smallpox’s wake devastated the indigenous societies. Kelton found, however, that such biological catastrophes did not occur simply because the region’s Natives lacked Download Epidemics and Enslavement for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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