Middle Passage Research Paper
The middle passage was the taking of African from Africa to the new world on a ship. It was called the middle passage because it was the middle section of the trade route taken by ships. The first section was the outward passage which was from Europe to Africa. The middle passage took enslaved Africans from their homeland. All were from different countries and most never even seen the sea before. The slaves had no knowledge of where they were going or what was waiting for them.
The slaves were packed below the decks of the ships. The men were usually the ones that were shackled together in pairs using leg irons, or shackles. They considered the men dangerous but they were mostly young, strong, and more likely to turn on the people who captured …show more content…
On the slave ships people were stuffed between decks in spaces too low for standing. The heat was unbearable and the air nearly unbreathable. Women were used sexually, Men were chained in pairs shackled wrist to wrist and ankle to ankle.( Africans in America, part 1, Narrative,The African slave Trade and the middle passage). Slaves were crowded together and forced to lay on their backs with their heads between the legs of each other. This meant they often had to lie in each other's feces,urine,and in case some diarrhea, or even blood. In cramped quarters, diseases such as smallpox and yellow fever spread like wildfire. The people with diseases were sometimes thrown overboard to prevent wholesale …show more content…
Trade between the europeans and Africans created the first route of the triangular slave trade.Europeans brought to goods like cooper, cloth, silks. Glassware etc to Africa in exchange for slaves. For weeks,months, and even years the slaves waited in dungeons of the slave factories around the Africa’s western coast.Slaves had already made the journey from africa’s interior but just barely. 20 million slaves were taken from their homes, sold into slavery, and half didn’t finish the journey to the African Coast because most of them died along the way. African slaves were about to take on the journey through the middle passage, it began and ended in
The slaves were packed below the decks of the ships. The men were usually the ones that were shackled together in pairs using leg irons, or shackles. They considered the men dangerous but they were mostly young, strong, and more likely to turn on the people who captured …show more content…
On the slave ships people were stuffed between decks in spaces too low for standing. The heat was unbearable and the air nearly unbreathable. Women were used sexually, Men were chained in pairs shackled wrist to wrist and ankle to ankle.( Africans in America, part 1, Narrative,The African slave Trade and the middle passage). Slaves were crowded together and forced to lay on their backs with their heads between the legs of each other. This meant they often had to lie in each other's feces,urine,and in case some diarrhea, or even blood. In cramped quarters, diseases such as smallpox and yellow fever spread like wildfire. The people with diseases were sometimes thrown overboard to prevent wholesale …show more content…
Trade between the europeans and Africans created the first route of the triangular slave trade.Europeans brought to goods like cooper, cloth, silks. Glassware etc to Africa in exchange for slaves. For weeks,months, and even years the slaves waited in dungeons of the slave factories around the Africa’s western coast.Slaves had already made the journey from africa’s interior but just barely. 20 million slaves were taken from their homes, sold into slavery, and half didn’t finish the journey to the African Coast because most of them died along the way. African slaves were about to take on the journey through the middle passage, it began and ended in