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mortality rates for Brazilian slaves were high, but not much higher than for slaves in the United States. Thus the Brazilian slave aged ten had a life expectancy of between thirty-four and thirty-eight years, while the US slave had a life expectancy of forty years. Similarly, the Brazilian slave had a life expectancy of twenty-three to twenty-six years, while the US slave had a life expectancy of twenty-seven years.
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By the 1860s Cuba had a free population of about 1 million, enjoying some of the highest per capita incomes in the world ($129.94); lower than that for the free population of the United States ($144) but slightly above that for Britain ($126).
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"During Reconstruction, whites had burned down black schoolhouses. Afterwards this was no longer necessary, since the same effect could be achieved by cutting to the bone state educational finance to black education."
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such legendary heroes of the war to free the slaves as Sherman engaged in the methodical genocide of the Indian nations. By 1885 some 13 million American Indians had been killed, a number roughly equivalent to the total number of Africans brought to the New World in the whole history of the Atlantic slave trade.
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