AAAD 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Depressant, Dysentery, Smallpox

• School: UNC
• Department: African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
• Course: AAAD 130
• Professor: Regester Charlene

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Aaad lecture #6: there were slave surgeons as they crossed the atlantic, the diet was important too. If you had weak or sick slaves already it impacted the speed of the ship: white brutality and beating slaves, slave mutiny = revolts and when they occurred (usually when the coast of. Aaad lecture #6: small pox, yellow fever. I(cid:374)flue(cid:374)za (cid:862) hip colds(cid:863: scurvy = lack of vitamin c, opthalmia = eye disease maybe from deprivation of light. If allowed to move on the deck and get exercise improved life: some women were abused, splinters from wooden boards causing additional illnesses, seasickness. Lack of toilet facilitates: trauma from leaving their homelands forcibly, some died from suffocation and lack of oxygen. Aaad lecture #6: women, suffered abuse from traders, more likely to be placed on the upper deck. Less likely to be shackled: assisted men to revolt.