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Category: Family and Home Asked by: wakabwe-ga List Price: $5.00 |
Posted:
29 Mar 2005 12:22 PST
Expires: 28 Apr 2005 13:22 PDT Question ID: 502168 |
HOW did the disease inherent in the production of sugar cane contribute to short life span of many African American on LOuisiana plantations? |
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Re: ENGLISH
From: protector99-ga on 15 Apr 2005 13:29 PDT |
I believe that has to do with the molecular makeup of many African Americans blood, it differs slightly than a caucasians. |
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Re: ENGLISH
From: telnady-ga on 18 Apr 2005 17:09 PDT |
Don't know if this helps, but I know from an epidemiology class that Louisiana was hit by a series of devastating epidemics of Yellow fever (a mosquito-borne illness) in the 1850s that was especially hard on African American slaves working in the sugar cane industry (because of the fact that they worked in the mosquito-infested crop fields). The website below confirms this and adds that around 11,000 people died of the disease in 1853 in Louisiana alone. http://www.shgresources.com/la/timeline/ telnady |
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