USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Trade Network Captured Africans became part of a network called the triangular trade: First leg of triangle-ships carried European goods to Africa to be exchanged for slaves. Second leg-Middle Passage-Africans were brought to the Americas to be sold. Third leg-American products were carried to Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -On the second leg, ships made the journey of the Middle Passage from Africa to the New World. Many slaves died of disease in the crowded holds of the slave ships. Once the ship reached the New World, enslaved survivors were sold in the Caribbean or the American colonies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Seasickness was common and the heat was oppressive. The lack of sanitation and suffocating conditions meant there was a constant threat of disease. Epidemics of fever, dysentery (the ‘flux’) and smallpox were frequent. Captives endured these conditions for about two months, sometimes longer.

Detailed explanation-4: -Middle Passage: The voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas and the Caribbean. Second Middle Passage: The forced migration of slaves from the upper south to the lower south of the United States.