| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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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. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-2756-9.)

Paul Kelton contributes to the ongoing discussion about Native American societies in the colonial Southeast by arguing that European diseases alone did not result in a dramatic protohistoric population decline. Rather, he avers that death rates rose exponentially when multiplied by the extension of European colonialism into the region, with slavery being the most devastating aspect of that intrusion. His argument runs counter to traditional assumptions about the introduction of disease vectors by the Spanish entradas. Kelton posits that it was the institutionalization of Native Americans as an economic commodity in slavery with its concurrent confinement and movement of peoples that provided the incubator for diseases to multiply.

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