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Epidemics and enslavement

Epidemics and enslavement

Paul Kelton · 2007 · 301 pages

DiseasesEpidemiologyHistoryIndians of North AmericaSlaverySmallpox

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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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