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[–] handlerchels ago  (edited ago)

They don't have a superior immune system. Their trip across the Atlantic is nothing compared to Europe surviving round after round of the Black Death, famine in Ireland and Eastern Europe, etc. It's nothing compared to the surviving native populations in the US and Latin America that were almost wiped out by diseases they'd never seen before. And what about people who survived the Gulag, or starvation in the Netherlands during WWII? Every society has been through the wood chipper when it comes to disease and other pressures. Blacks haven't faced nearly what some other groups have endured, at least not in over 100 years. As usual, you're giving them credit for something they don't deserve credit for.

They also aren't the only population that was ever experimented on by an unethical medical establishment. Orphans and prisoners were routinely experimented on before the advent of informed consent forms. You need to educate yourself. You're falling for their propaganda of Blacks being the only people to ever have a problem.

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[–] AristotleCLONE 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Their trip across the Atlantic is nothing compared to Europe surviving round after round of the Black Death, famine in Ireland and Eastern Europe, etc. It's nothing compared to the surviving native populations in the US and Latin America that were almost wiped out by diseases they'd never seen before. And what about people who survived the Gulag, or starvation in the Netherlands during WWII?

You just compared apples to oranges. Yes, therefore you only verified that you do in fact realize negros have a superior immune system.

Everything you listed above failed to rise to level of what negros dealt with while locked up for two months in the belly of a Slaveship crossing the Atlantic.

As a matter of fact, you should detail the life our fellow Caucasoids endured while being overcome by those diseases you listed. Let us compare if it levels their immune systems like this:

There are two ways for the captains to load their boats with slaves. One system is called loose packing to deliver slaves. Under that system, captains transported fewer slaves than their ships could carry in order to reduce the disease and deaths among them. The other system is the cruellest one and is called tight packing. This system was based on the fact that the more slaves they had, the more profit they could make. They carried as many slaves as their ship could carry, and often more. In the ship's hold, the slaves were chained ankle to wrist, with barely any place to move.

In the worse case, the captains did not provide any kinds of hygiene. In other boats, the captains placed buckets for the slaves' excrements, but there was never one bucket per slave. Slaves who were close to the buckets used it but those who were farther away often tumbled and fell on others while trying to reach it.

Severely hindered by the shackles that were tightly secured around their ankles, most slaves preferred to ease themselves where they were rather than to bruise themselves in the process of trying to reach it. Also, some sailors would be ordered to go below deck to wash the slaves briefly. Although the crew avoided the slaves, they often would call a woman on deck to satisfy their desires. When weather conditions were bad, the conditions of the quarters dramatically worsened. The slaves' holding quarters were so hot and humid that the floor of their rooms was covered with layers of filth during most of the voyage.

To prevent slaves from killing themselves, sailors began chopping the heads off of corpses, implying that when they died, they would return to their homes headless. Even with precautions taken to avoid suicide attempts like drowning and starvation, many healthy and well-fed slaves died from what was known as "fixed melancholy."

Food was a very big problem for the slaves and the captains. The captains often thought that food was too expensive, and tried to buy as little food as they could. Some captains chose to take a sufficient amount of food, believing that healthy slaves would be worth the cost of the food. Many captains simply decided to buy as less food as possible, even if much of their "cargo" died of starvation. The feeding of the slaves was on deck. The slaves were taken out cautiously, with sailors to feed them and many to guard them with loaded guns in order to prevent a slave rebellion. On other boats, the slaves were fed in the hold, by sailors.

There was a rule about the amount of food to be bought on a slave ship, but many captains ignored this rule. A rule about the water needed on a boat also was imposed later on. After the sailors finished cleaning the quarters and the slaves were given their first meal of the day, the slaves were not allowed to leave the quarters until their second and last meal of the day.

As soon as they finished eating, they were sent them bask into their barracks. The tallest men were put amidships, the widest part of the vessel, while the shorter men were placed in the stern. After properly placing them in their quarters, the sailors closed and barred the hatchway. When sailors tried to sleep on the deck, they often heard howling and screams of distress. The noises heard more often, however, were those of quarreling slaves.

Water was another problem, but captains were more careful about the amount of water they took. In hot weather, dehydration occurred very often, but most of the year, slaves had sufficient water. Slaves often drank more water than a normal person would, simply because bellow decks, it was very hot and humid.

Diseases were very common in boats, they were transmitted easily because of the poor hygiene and the way slaves were packed together. Deaths numbers could very important, as in a Portuguese ship, a hundred out of five hundred slaves died during the night because of an unrecorded disease. The flux, smallpox and scurvy were the most spread diseases on the boats.

To prevent both despondency and scurvy, sailors forced the slaves to be more active and participate in what they called a dance. In this ritual, sailors snapped large whips at the naked bodies of the slaves who jumped screamed from the pain. The shackles were left on during the whippings and often tore away at their bruised flesh. The poor conditions, brutal treatment of slaves, and continual suicides resulted in a high mortality during the Middle Passage.

During the 18th century, the ships were bigger and the journeys took around 30 days. The more days at sea, the more deaths among the cargo, and so the captain tried to cut the Middle Passage voyage as short as possible. An example of a ship that was delayed for weeks due to unreachable trade winds was the Young Hero, led by Dr. Claxton. He stated,

"We were so straightened for provisions that if we had been ten more days at sea, we must either have eaten the slaves that died, or have made the living slaves walk the plank."

No accurate records of men as cannibals were founds concerning the Middle Passage but several accounts were found about slaves killed for various other reasons. In some cases, slaves were poisoned to death because they were unable to keep them on board. Often a slave ship was hurt the most in the last few days of the long journey along the Middle Passage. Sometimes the ship would be taken by a French privateer out of Martinique, or by an unexpected hurricane. On a few ships, the slaves chose suicide as their last option before reaching shore. These horrors, although, were not frequent.

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[–] handlerchels ago  (edited ago)

Worse than the Gulag? Do you know what the Gulag was? Hard labor in Siberia on starvation rations, while being mocked and often sexually abused by staff. So no, the middle passage wasn't worse than that. And I wouldn't say it was worse than people starving to death in the Netherlands in the 40s under occupation, either.

You're wrong, monkey.