 Unsurprisingly, these treatments did little to arrest the increasing death rates among both white enslavers and black enslaved.Still the white men came, as a male white immigrant could prosper much more than his counterparts in England's other American colonies.Though Thistlewood never married, his sexual exploits were prolific, with his diary chronicling 3,852 acts of 'consensual' and nonconsensual sexual intercourse with 138 women, nearly all of whom were black slaves.