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The Middle Passage's Unseen Harvest: Dysentery, Triage, and Shipboard Medicine
In Episode 215, Lucas and Luna step aboard a slave ship to examine the gruesome realities of the Middle Passage through the lens of disease and medical triage. They discuss the terrifying dysentery epidemics that could kill hundreds in a single voyage, the brutal calculus captains faced when deciding who lived and died, and the shocking emergence of the first systematic shipboard medical tests. Drawing on the journals of ship surgeons like Alexander Falconbridge and the infamous case of the Zong, they reveal how a captive's value was tallied in dollars, not humanity. Learn how…
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