Slave working lives lasted only ten to twenty years under colonial conditions

Evidence

Breeding was oppressive to all fertile black slave women. Undernourished, overworked women were rarely in a physical condition that would allow for safe easy childbirth. Repeated pregnancies without proper care resulted in numerous miscarriages and death. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 132 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: British condominium urban labor demand created a feared detribalized slave-descendant class; Overwork and undernourishment made slave childbirth dangerous and deadly — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 132; Half of newly arrived African slaves died within a few years.

Related

• Overwork and undernourishment made slave childbirth dangerous and deadly (similarity 0.88)
• Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central (similarity 0.80)
• Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Overwork and undernourishment made slave childbirth dangerous and deadly #expands (0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 132