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>The whole reason for the African slave trade was Malaria as the European "slaves" (poor indentured workers) could not survive in the US south Do you have any
by adamio 9y ago
>The whole reason for the African slave trade was Malaria as the European "slaves" (poor indentured workers) could not survive in the US south
Do you have any references for that?
Apparently the European slave owners survived
- danieltillett 9y agoIt is not just a matter of survival, but being able to perform hard physical labour when carrying a high load of malarial parasites. Europeans in areas of high malarial load just could not sustain the workload that west africans could. Lots of slave owners died of Malaria (particularly their children). This is why the indentured servants were shipped to the North and the West African’s to the South. Western African slave labour was not able to compete against the lower cost indentured European workers in the North.
- craftyguy 9y agoStill waiting for those references..
- danieltillett 9y agoHere [1,2]. I have to say this is very well known to anyone who has studied the history of Malaria. 1. http://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/36118 http://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/36118 2. http://historyrevived.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/did-malaria-create-slave-south.html http://historyrevived.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/did-malaria-cr...