Half of newly arrived African slaves died within a few years.

Evidence

Sharpe’s theorization of “the wake” as a condition of Black life in the afterlife of slavery offers methodological tools for thinking about persistent harm, archival absence, and “wake work” — the labor of attending to Black life under conditions of ongoing premature death. Methodologically, the book interleaves criticism, memoir, and visual analysis. For a doctoral candidate at the COMM/AI/Equity intersection, In the Wake provides essential conceptual scaffolding for thinking about training-data archives, algorithmic erasure, and the politics of who is computationally legible. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 465 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sugar’s labor demands drove the English to mass importation of African slaves; Brazil’s slaves were deliberately worked to death and replaced; Slave working lives lasted only ten to twenty years under colonial conditions (+1 more)

Related

• Black life persists under conditions of ongoing premature death after slavery (similarity 0.89)

Broader Connections

• Slave working lives lasted only ten to twenty years under colonial conditions #corroborates (0.75)
• Black life persists under conditions of ongoing premature death after slavery #expands (0.60) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 465