Hard work, poor diet, disease, and maltreatment contributed to high mortality rates
Replacing indentured servitude with black slavery diminished these risks, alleviating the reliance on white indentured servants who were often dissatisfied and troublesome, and creating a caste of racially defined laborers whose movements were strictly controlled
Food and drug administration regulation of tobacco: integrating science, law, policy, and advocacy
Put the squares of cotton out in a little formation - We were taught to put the yellow, red, black and white at the four corners (for the directions), and then the green, blue, and purple in the middle
The islands of the Caribbean did not have any natural predators that could control the cat populations and feral cats became a problem for the Americas