Item #5506 Doctors and Slaves : A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies 1680-1834. Richard B. Sheridan.

Doctors and Slaves : A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies 1680-1834

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #5506
ISBN: 0521259657

Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, 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; xxii, 420 pages.

Price: $49.95

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