In this study Professor Sheridan presents a rich and wide-ranging account of the health care of slaves in the British West Indies, from 1680-1834. He demonstrates that while Caribbean island settlements were viewed by mercantile statesmen and economists as ideal colonies, the physical and medical realities were very different. The study is based on wide research in archival materials in Great Britain, the West Indies and the United States. By steeping himself in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sources, Professor ...
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In this study Professor Sheridan presents a rich and wide-ranging account of the health care of slaves in the British West Indies, from 1680-1834. He demonstrates that while Caribbean island settlements were viewed by mercantile statesmen and economists as ideal colonies, the physical and medical realities were very different. The study is based on wide research in archival materials in Great Britain, the West Indies and the United States. By steeping himself in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sources, Professor Sheridan is able to recreate the milieu of a past era: he tells us what the slave doctors wrote and how they functioned, and he presents a storehouse of information on how and why the slaves sickened and died. By bringing together these diverse medical demographic and economic sources, Professor Sheridan casts new light on the history of slavery in the Americas.
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Very Good-with no dust jacket. 0521259657. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, cover rub, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "The concentration of people, plant, and animals in lowland tropical areas suited to sugar cane production opened a Pandora's box of debilitating and lethal pathogens and their vectors to prey on the black and white inhabitants. Thus the curse of a slavery monoculture offset the great wealth derived from the Sugar Colonies."-Preface; Ex-Library; 448 pages.