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Sherard, Robert Harborough - 1905

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Fluctuations in a dreadful childhood : synthetic longitudinal height data, realtive prices, and weather in the short-term health of American slaves

Steckel, Richard H. (contributor) - 2005

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Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves

Steckel, Richard H. - 2022

This paper relies on birth and death lists from plantation records to investigate the causes of low birth weight and poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine was arduous overall and particularily intense during...

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Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood : Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves

Steckel, Richard H. - 2021

For over a quarter century anthropometric historians have struggled to identify and measure the numerous factors that affect adult stature, which depends upon diet, disease and physical activity from conception to maturity. I simplify this complex problem by assessing nutritional status in a...

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Forced labor and health-related outcomes : the case of beggar children

Drydakis, Nick - 2023

manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging relates to deteriorated health … researching child begging. A scale was developed to quantify forced child begging based on the International Labour Organization … stop begging. It was found that forced child begging was positively associated with living with unknown people, hunger due …

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