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hokeyhokie

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According to the book 1492, originally plantation owners in the Caribbean


used European indentured servants, but they died from malaria and other tropical diseases. They found by accident Africans were not as susceptible. Boom.

(In response to this post by Seattle .Hoo)

Posted: 02/23/2018 at 11:10AM



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