What Are The Effects Of Slavery In African Slave Trade
The slaves were often given “away by their own countrymen” for weapons and currency. Selling “their own children, kindred, or neighbours” sometimes themselves, in times of drought and famine to be fed by their captors, not to die of starvation. Many were beaten beforehand by their black captors; covered by “scabs and wounds on the bodies of many of them when sold” to the white traders. Many African children were carried away from “the roads, or in the woods; or else in the Cougans, or corn- fields” doing chores or to keep the birds away from the crop. Once they arrived on the slave ship “the sexes were separated, kept naked, packed close together, and the men were chained for long periods” only to be released to get very little sunlight or