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A broad and common measure of the health of a population is its life expectancy. The life expectancy in 1850 of a White person in the United States was forty; for a slave, it was thirty-six. [1] Mortality statistics for Whites were calculated from census data; statistics for slaves were based on small sample-sizes. [1]
Massachusetts was for intents and purposes a free state with total abolition from the American Revolution forward. [10] Maine: USA: February 7, 1865: March 15, 1820 (statehood) [11] The pre-statehood District of Maine was legally a part of Massachusetts; Maine was admitted as Missouri's free-state "twin" under the Missouri Compromise. Michigan
The death rate for the slaves on their way to their new destination across the American South was less than that suffered by captives shipped across the Atlantic Ocean, but mortality nevertheless was higher than the normal death rate. Slave traders transported two-thirds of the slaves who moved West. [177]
Pages in category "Slavery in the United States by state or territory" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery. New York: Pantheon, 1990. Jewett, Clayton E. and John O. Allen; Slavery in the South: A State-By-State History. (Greenwood Press, 2004) Levine, Lawrence W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Overall suicide rates of black slaves in the United States are believed to have been comparatively low, in part due to cultural beliefs common to both Africa and African-American communities. [3] Africa has the lowest suicide rate of any continent, and the suicide rate of African-descended Americans is a fraction of that of European-descended ...
Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries, after it gained independence from the British and before the end of the American Civil War.
Slave quarters in the United States; Slave states and free states; Slave trade in the United States; Slavery among Native Americans in the United States; Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography; Slavery and the United States Constitution; Slavery as a positive good in the United States; Slavery at American colleges and universities