"And if I do not, how many slaves will die each day of their voyage?"

Should a slave die, it was a plot to discredit his oversight of the work force.

At night, half of the communal dwellings were vacant because so many slaves had died from the fever.

Then it follows that young slaves, still strong, die without the appearance of sickness.

What they said was, when the last slaves died, slavery would die with them.

The two sides clashed, and many slaves died in the fighting.

Philadelphia was an unhealthy place during the colonial period, with a death rate of 58 per 1,000, and many slaves died early.

Around 6,000 V-2's were eventually built, at an average cost of about $18,000 each (some 20,000 slaves died to make this bargain rate possible).

In 1844 one hundred slaves died over a three month period from cholera.

The slave had died in the darkness, suffocated under tons of ashes.