[AngrySpud]

"Women were usually dead by 40."

What's left unsaid is that high death rates weren't that unusual 300 years ago among non-slaves either.

[billorites]

I don't want to appear insensitve...

But what a crock.

[cyborg]

http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/06/17/p16s1.htm

As you can see any meaningful scientific research as well as insight into the lives of slaves is being lost because of PC squabbling and usual interloping of liberal black activists. It's a government project so what can one expect?

[yankeedame]

The official "African Burial Ground" Site

[sgtbono2002]

Dig up a body look at it a few minutes and make up any story you like to say how it got there, Like the woman found with the small bones of a child, he says that is a sign of slavery it is just as easily a sign she died in childbirth and a lot of women back then died in childbirth. Its easy to make up a story to fit each body, if you know what slant you wish to put on it.

[CurlyDave]

"It seems that it was cost effective for slave traders to work people to death and then simply to replace them, so they sought to get Africans who were as young as possible, but ready to work," said Mr Blakey.

This quote merely demonstrates that Mr. Blakey needs to learn to do his homework so he won't look like a moron. A cursory search of the internet (less than two minutes) reveals that the life expectancy in England and Wales was less than 40 until approximately 1850. One could hardly expect that the life expectancy in a colony would be greater than that of the mother country.

See:

Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Development*

Matteo Cervellati

UPF, Barcelona and Universit´a di Bologna &

Uwe Sunde

IZA, Bonn and University of Bonn

April 10, 2003