Why didn't African slaves die of European diseases?

Africans brought to the New World didn't die in huge numbers like Native Americans because the diseases in question weren't European diseases. They were Old World diseases. read more

Africans brought to the New World didn’t die in huge numbers like Native Americans because the diseases in question weren’t European diseases. They were Old World diseases. Smallpox, yellow fever, and so on were endemic through the entire Old World, afflicting Africa and Asia just as they did Europe. read more

But that's not to say that African slaves didn't suffer from European diseases--they could and did! For example, the strains of smallpox endemic in central Africa (Angola today) and those in western Europe were a little different, meaning that mortality rates could differ. read more

I read that most Native American victims of colonization in the new world died of European diseases and not by battles. read more