David Kiracofe
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Tidewater Community College
Chesapeake Campus
1428 Cedar Road
Chesapeake, Virginia 23322
757-822-5136
>>> Basil Forest <[log in to unmask]> 03/01/07 10:21 AM >>>
 <snip>Moreover, three  squares and a place to live is some incentive as
well.  

I'll leave it to others to comment on the character of slave housing,
but the evidence for nutritional deficiencies in the slave diet (corn
meal and salt pork-based) is well documented.

David Kiracofe

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