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  1. Greene County Goes Yellow with Fever

    Date(s): January 1847 to December 1847 Location: ORANGE, North Carolina, GREENE, Alabama Tag(s): Plague, Cameron family, alabama, Slavery, Yellow Fever 

    In 1847 inhabitants of the Mississippi River basin  had to deal with an outbreak of Yellow Fever.  Transmitted by mosquitoes, Yellow Fever caused symptoms including fevers, chills, headaches and nausea.  In the later months of 1847 the letters that overseer Charles Lewellyn sent to Paul Cameron about the condition of his plantation were fraught with the names of slave that were ill, recovering or...