Horror marked every aspect of slavery throughout the American South, but there was a particular intensity to the agony for the Africans who were brought to the Lowcountry of South Carolina to plant, grow, and harvest the grain. Alligators and snakes lurked in the ditches alongside the fields. Mosquitoes and horseflies thickened the air. If you merely touched the bark of a tree in a moment of rest, your entire body might start to itch from a sudden swarm of clover mites.
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