Was that a yes or a no? I’m trying to figure out if whites or blacks had it worse as slaves since both were used.
Did black slave have a 2 year average lifespan as slaves in the new world like white slaves did?
It’s very un-PC to note that African slaves were regarded as exotic and something of a status symbol in the early colonial era, and, as well, they were property for life with obligation to provide food and shelter. In general they received less harsh treatment than indentured servants from the British Isles and Ireland, who were not property, they were bound out for a term and so they were worked very hard to get the most out of them. Then, there’s the genetic resistance to mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, that killed off indentured servants rather rapidly, whereas Africans tend to have some heritable resistance due to a gene mutation, the same mutation that leads to Sickle Cell Anemia. As always, it’s a far more complicated story than the ideologues are willing to admit, but to wrap it up the historically correct answer rather than the politically correct one is that Africans had a better survival rate, which is why they came to be preferred.