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Subject: ENGLISH
Category: Family and Home
Asked by: wakabwe-ga
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Posted: 29 Mar 2005 12:22 PST
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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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Subject: 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.
Subject: 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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