“Did black slaves also have a 2 year estimated life span once they reached the “new world” like the white slaves did?”
Very True! They don’t teach a lot of detail in schools today. Case in point, having traveled our Country and visited many Museums while working as a road tech for over 3 decades.
Here’s one you won’t hear in a modern classroom.
Often times, .... when the Irish were brought to the Property of residence, the Property Owners could take nothing for granted. Irish slaves had to be instructed as to the correct way to use a Staircase. At first, - sometimes the slave would try to go up the stairs using / all their arms and legs. Similar to the way a dog might go up and down the stairs. These people never saw a staircase before. The Property owners would have to take the time, and teach them how to use the stairs, and keep upright while traversing the steps.
Yeah, it’s all there in the diaries and journals that have been preserved over the years. There are a lot of interesting details out there, ...... at least there used to be.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3574078/posts?page=28#28
Bookmarking this info; maybe they did that with stairs because up to that point they only had seen & used ladders?