| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.4

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Book Review

Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492–1715. By Paul Kelton. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii + 288 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $50.00.

Paul Kelton has written a good book about a bad business, exploring the impact of imported epidemics on the Amerindians (or, as he prefers, the Natives) of the southeastern United States before 1715. His central argument is that the introduced infections—smallpox, measles, mumps, influenza, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, etc.—did their grisly work mainly after 1650, and could do so only because of changes to disease ecology brought on by English settlers' slave trading.

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