Assertion: slave's diet | /r/CapableOf | contribute to high infant mortality rate
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The combination of hard physical labor, corporal punishment, a diet often lacking nutritional value, and poor living conditions contributed to a very high infant mortality rate—at least 20 percent of the slave children died before the age of five—and a much lower life expectancy than southern whites.