. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. d sailors. These people, debarred fromagriculture on a large scale, soon learned to be carriers and manu-facturers - a resource to which many peoples so situated have it came about that the Northjhad a great interest in the slavetrade because of her function, of carrier for-the South. Slaves wereused in the North as servants, as we shall see later. The climatr: of New England is much colder and much more change-able than that of the South or of the Guinea coast of fact is significant. The temperature of New England in thesummer
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. d sailors. These people, debarred fromagriculture on a large scale, soon learned to be carriers and manu-facturers - a resource to which many peoples so situated have it came about that the Northjhad a great interest in the slavetrade because of her function, of carrier for-the South. Slaves wereused in the North as servants, as we shall see later. The climatr: of New England is much colder and much more change-able than that of the South or of the Guinea coast of fact is significant. The temperature of New England in thesummer is 68° P.; in the winter it is from 23d P. to 32d F. Thetemperature of the Guinea coast is almost uniform at 77° p., the year-ly variation not exceeding 9 ^P. The yearly variation in New Eng-land is not less than 77^ P. and may be in excess of 77°/ Guineais on the slave coast of Africa. Most of the negroes imported to the colonies came -to this region. So raarke a change of climate1. Sydow - Wagners raethodischer Schul-Atlas, Plate could not but have its effect. What that effect is any physician who has had a considerable practice among the negroes in the North can testify. A professor who as a medical student examines scores ou of negroes in -fcke-st. Louis hospital says that he believes that notone had sound lungs - that many had lungs that were seriously affect-ed. .During the (civil) War consumption carried off nearly threetimes as large a proportion of the colored troops as of the whites!In llorth Carolina in 1895-6 the death rate of the whites was ,and o^ the colored per thousand. The largest number of deathswas from tuberculosis, the death rate from that disease alone for the whites and for the colored people, the proportionbeing one white to colored. While tuberculosis is much more pre-valent among the negroes living in the towns, it is becoming moreand more common in the country districts. A like testimony by the report of t
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