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  1. Fall Illness on the Greene County Plantation - Flu or Yellow Fever?
    date September 28, 1847 to October 26, 1847map GREENE, Alabamatags Illness, Yellow Fever, plantation, Slavery

         In the “Cameron Plantation Letters” there are numerous references to the health of the slaves living on the Greene County Alabama plantation.  There are one hundred or so letters in the University of North Carolina collection that are catalogued on the website ‘The Plantation Letters, Interpreting Antebellum Plantation Life’. I found thirty-five that directly referenced the health...