SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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The smell-people would vomit and use the bathroom where they were standing and it would never get cleaned up.
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The slaves were barely fed food.
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There was barely enough space to turn around.
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Middle Passage itself lasted roughly 80 days on ships ranging from small schooners to massive, purpose-built “slave ships.” Ship crews packed humans together on or below decks without space to sit up or move around. Without ventilation or sufficient water, about 15% grew sick and died.
Detailed explanation-2: -What made the Middle Passage such a terrible ordeal for the enslaved Africans? They were chained together, thrown overboard if they were dead, whipped and brutally treated, little food or water, no space, disease, and confusion.
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: -The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.