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It 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
by danieltillett 9y ago
It 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...