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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I thought sending your children into the fields was what made those farms work?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Not if it's cotton...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Ah the good ol' days when farmers had 10+ kids.

Only 5 made it to adulthood due to diseases like measles, mumps, influenza, whooping cough etc. , poor and dangerous working conditions, and no healthcare. Of those 5 remaining, 1 of them died in childbirth, and 1 died in a random war and 3 went on to have kids of their own.