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While working on plantations in the Southern United States, many slaves faced serious health problems. Improper nutrition, the unsanitary living conditions, and excessive labor made them more susceptible to diseases than their owners; the death rates among the slaves were significantly higher due to diseases.
In North Carolina, enslaved people were entitled to be clothed and fed, and the murder of an enslaved person was punishable. However, enslaved people could not testify against whites nor initiate legal actions. There was no protection against rape. "The entire system worked against protection of slave women from sexual assault and violence". [10]
The Freedmen's Bureau helped the government in terms of disabled persons in two ways: counting the number of disabled people in the South to estimate the amount of fiscal relief needed and setting up asylums and hospitals for disabled former slaves to reside in. [5] In terms of their first responsibility, from "September 1, 1866 to September 1 ...
The Mountaintop Project is a multi-year, $35 million effort to restore Monticello as Jefferson knew it, and to tell the stories of the people—enslaved and free—who lived and worked on the ...
Reséndez, a professor of history at the University of California, Davis, estimates between 2.5 million and 5 million Indigenous people were enslaved from 1491 to 1900.
Researchers estimate there are less than 30 incorporated historic Black towns left in the United States, a fraction of more […] The post Descendants of enslaved people fight to save historic ...
Living conditions for the enslaved people were unsanitary, and outbreaks of cholera often occurred. In 1844 one hundred enslaved people died over a three-month period from cholera. [22] The actual number of enslaved people in the Kanwaha Valley exceeded the stated census numbers due to the shifting population of hired slaves in the salt ...
While slaves' living conditions were poor by modern standards, Robert Fogel argued that all workers, free or slave, during the first half of the 19th century were subject to hardship. [204] Unlike free individuals, however, enslaved people were far more likely to be underfed, physically punished, sexually abused, or killed, with no recourse ...