Abstract
This chapter, which tries to explore the antebellum southern disease environment and the interactions between slavery and diseases, starts by asserting that diseases have varying effects upon people of different ethnicities. It also examines the influence of the primary “southern” diseases and their impacts on the people with different ethnicities. Furthermore, the chapter seeks to determine the interactions between the slavery system and how these diseases influenced slavery, in general, and its profitability, and also assesses the role of the plantation system and slavery in the spread and the perpetuation of infectious parasitic diseases across the population in the southern region. It also explores the influences of these antebellum southern diseases on health, human productivity, productivity, and society.
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