Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
Some captive negroes died from the terrible hardships of the 'middle passage' -- the ocean trip from Africa to the 'new world,' mainly the West Indies. The surprising fact is that the death rate was approx the same, among the ship's crew. Because the sailors fell prey to Africans' infectious diseases for which the sailors had no immunity.
(I'm talking about the old days, not current times in which a s***e trade continues to flourish in the Muslim countries of the Arabian Gulf)