Slave cabins were one-room shacks---- freezing in the winter and sweltering in the summer. These dust-filled wooden structures were excellent breeding grounds for pneumonia, typhus, cholera, malaria, lockjaw and tuberculosis. If a young child survived to go to the fields, he/she usually went to those fields with rotten teeth and worms. Fewer than 4 out of 100 slaves lived to age 60.
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