• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    To my understanding, a lot of earlier French attempts at colonies in North America had fallen apart or seen a significant percentage of colonists killed off by disease and such, so there’d have been a significant risk that you wouldn’t survive.

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      “We’ve got a problem over there with disease. How about we send over a bunch of prostitutes.”