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>The whole reason for the African slave trade was Malaria as the European "slaves" (poor indentured workers) could not survive in the US south

Do you have any references for that?

Apparently the European slave owners survived

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It is not just a matter of survival, but being able to perform hard physical labour when carrying a high load of malarial parasites. Europeans in areas of high malarial load just could not sustain the workload that west africans could. Lots of slave owners died of Malaria (particularly their children).

This is why the indentured servants were shipped to the North and the West African’s to the South. Western African slave labour was not able to compete against the lower cost indentured European workers in the North.

Still waiting for those references..

Here [1,2]. I have to say this is very well known to anyone who has studied the history of Malaria.

1. http://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/36118

2. http://historyrevived.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/did-malaria-cr...

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