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...Death was ever-present for early colonists in America. Mortality rates for Jamestown in its early years were catastrophic. At the end of its first year, 1607-1608, thirty-eight of the original 108 settlers were alive. The winter of 1609 was the notorious starving time in Virginia, when the population dropped from 500 to sixty in six months.' During the period 1619 to 1622, when the Virginia Company poured colonists into Virginia at a massive rate, the mortality rate was once again high. The company sent 3,570 people to America during these three years, making a total population, with the 700 already there, of 4,270. Three thousand colonists died during these three years. At least 6,000 people went to Virginia between 1607 and 1624. In 1625, there were 1,200 people there...

Смертность первых североамериканских колонистов была не меньшая, чем в колымских лагерях. Причем, как ясно из дальнейшего текста статьи умирали в общем примерно от того же.

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[(Anonymous)]

С неолитом ещё можно сравнить, например.

Колымские лагеря, всё-же, в 20-м веке были.