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  • 11 - Reframing the Indian Dead: Removal-Era Cherokee Graves and the Changing Landscape of Southern Memory

  • Edited by Craig Thompson Friend, North Carolina State University, Lorri Glover, St Louis University, Missouri
  • Book:
    Death and the American South
    Published online:
    05 November 2014
    Print publication:
    24 November 2014, pp 250-274

  • Summary

    Yellow fever was a regular visitor to the Old South, and Charleston had the displeasure of bearing the brunt of yellow fever mortalities, rivaled only by New Orleans and Savannah in death rates. European immigrants who settled in Charleston died at higher rates than native white Southerners for a variety of reasons, mostly related to lack of resistance to the disease but also indicative of social class and gender. Yellow fever also threatened people legally defined as property. Charleston was an urban slave society, and when slaves died of yellow fever, the monetary losses inspired slaveholding elite to support public health measures. Relations between Irish and African Americans were generally more hostile than those between Germans and black Southerners. Many immigrants had not been socialized to racism, and they were slow to react to the norms of southern society, especially as racial lines hardened in the late antebellum era.