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Body Stuff: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?

How to Be a Better Human

CHAPTER

Sleep After the Break

A few decades after slavery was abolished, many descendants of people who were enslaved worked in the railroad industry. The pullman car workers testified about the health detriments of being forced to work and sleep under these kinds of conditions for extended periods. Sleep even became part of the labor campaign for an eight hour workda.

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