There is no question that European colonization introduced smallpox, measles, and other infectious diseases to the Americas, causing considerable harm and death
Disease ecology of the Native Southeast, 1000-1492 -- The protohistoric puzzle, 1492-1659 -- Slave raids and smallpox, 1659-1700 -- The epidemiological origins
A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet little is known about it. Fenn reveals how deeply
The “intelligent and sweeping” (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American Revolution in 1776—and how Boston’s small