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I'm thinking more of Africa, where you had the colonies side by side. On average, the British colonies did better. And, probably because they were already har

I'm thinking more of Africa, where you had the colonies side by side. On average, the British colonies did better. And, probably because they were already hardened to disease, the natives tended to stick around and keep their land more.

dragonwriter 8y ago
> I'm thinking more of Africa, where you had the colonies side by side. They were side by side in the Americas, too. And while, yeah, disease was a problem for the indigenous people everywhere in the Americas, not all the colonial powers carried out genocidal displacement campaigns starting in the colonial period and lasting well beyond.