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> on boat journeys even though 10% of the passengers would typically die on the way Source? Seems highly implausible (in general).
by devit 6y ago
> on boat journeys even though 10% of the passengers would typically die on the way
Source? Seems highly implausible (in general).
- dredmorbius 6y agoThe "middle passage" portion of the slave trade saw ~15% mortality, though that would have been high for non-slave passenger travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Passage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Passage Deaths at sea definitely occurred. Credible accurate records don't seem to be available however, as this article's abstract notes: Farley Grubb, "Morbidity and Mortality on the North Atlantic Passage: Eighteenth-Century German Immigration" (1987). https://www.jstor.org/stable/204611 https://www.jstor.org/stable/204611
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoYeah, the only kind of boat where that was probably true was the kind where the majority of "passengers" definitely weren't going willingly.
- inglor_cz 6y ago"Coffin ships" that carried the Irish fleeing the potato famine to America were notorious for their death rate and generally bad conditions. Of course, this was an already weakened population of passengers.