During the 18th century Rice Coast irrigation projects in South Carolina and Georgia, the death rate was so extreme that the enslaved population could not sustain itself. 66% to 90% of enslaved children died before the age of 15. Their deaths was recorded only in private ledgers as a loss of capital
by Expert_Koala_8691
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Trump and the Republicans are trying hard to take us back to these times. We must not allow them to succeed.
1700’s?
Many children died from chronic diarrhea, dysentery, scarlet fever, malaria, tuberculosis.
Got a source for those claims?
I don’t know if this is true. I had read that the area had become brackish water and was no longer suitable for raising rice.
Is this even true?
Yeah but, as I was told by my elders, “blacks had it better under slavery here than they did back in Africa”. 🤨
Of what were they dying?
Trench foot freaks me out
How did they all die? Heat? Starvation? Murder?
Sadly this type of activity is still going on all over the world. Look how many “guest workers” in gulf coast countries die working on infrastructure projects like stadiums or skyscrapers.
There is some important context here though. The death rate for children in preindustrial societies(especially in disease-infested regions like that) were already extremely high. Most children died before adulthood. Now, that deathrate was still way higher, 90% just isn’t normal for humans. But it isn’t as absurdly big a gap as we from a safer modern society might think
“ Black were better off during slavery because they committed less crime” -Charlie Kirk
“Slaves developed skills which could be used for their benefit”. -Ron DeSantis
The Smithsonian only focuses ”on how bad slavery was…” -Donald Trump
Disgusting. I hope Allah (SWT) brings all these tyrants to justice.
Malaria. We are so lucky we don’t have to worry about it there now.
Reddit became a place where foreign states can send digital missiles between each other
Til mao genocided his own people
Til slavery was horrible
Impossible don’t you know “they were super valuable” and “were treated kindly”?/s
I worked in the fields as a kid , harvesting, and it was what drove me to get a education . Only breaks had were when any random truck or white ma would appear. We thought it was the Child Labor inforcers.
This is terrible, but not as terrible as it seems. The norm in the 1800s was 50% before age 5.