Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715

Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715
ISBN-10
0803215576
ISBN-13
9780803215573
Category
History
Pages
313
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
U of Nebraska Press
Author
Paul Kelton

Description

Tracing the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of the Southeast, this work 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.

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