SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Clean
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Comfortable
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Dirty
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Cramped
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Detailed explanation-1: -Life on the fields meant working sunup to sundown six days a week and having food sometimes not suitable for an animal to eat. Plantation slaves lived in small shacks with a dirt floor and little or no furniture. Life on large plantations with a cruel overseer was oftentimes the worst.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slave decks were often only a few feet high, and the African captives were shackled together lying down, side by side, head to foot, or even closer. Deaths from suffocation, malnutrition, and disease were routine on the slave deck, as were arbitrary torture and murder by the crew.
Detailed explanation-3: -Describe conditions on board slave ships. They were cramped and crowded and waste on board spread diseases and man people died. They were shackled the entire trip. They were allowed on deck for air, but for short times, for fear they would jump.