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X-posted from: H-NET List for the History of Slavery <H-SLAVERY@H-NET.MSU.EDU> From: "Mintz, Steven H" <SMintz@UH.EDU> ---------- From: TAFFIN [mailto:TAFFIN@cg972.fr] It would help if you mentioned the sources of your references. To what I know, Montpellier in France was not especially renowned as an unhealthy place. As a matter of fact, there was there a very famous Faculty of Medicine. But the region beneath definitely was unhealthy, with swamps that bore malaria. D. Taffin Archives départementales de la Martinique > -----Message d'origine----- > From: Manuel Barcia [mailto:mbarciauk@yahoo.co.uk] > > I am working on an article about politics and disease in West Africa > (19th Century) and I have found a couple of references describing Cape > Coast as the "Montpellier of Africa". Apparently, everytime this > comparison appears in the documents there is also a clear reference to > the unhealthy state of the colony, which led me to believe that there > was something wrong about the reputation of Montpellier. > > Does anybody knows whether Montpellier was also considered an unhealthy > place during the 18th-19th centuries? I would appreciate any comments or > help.
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