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African Americans During The Middle Passage
The treatment enslaved Africans went through during the Middle Passage were unbearable because they were treated unfairly. The Middle Passage was the voyage of the enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas. The image provided supplies an idea of how tightly packed the Africans were on a ship during the Middle Passage. The Africans were treated like suitcases because the suitcases just get thrown into the cargo hold without having the people caring about the individual suitcase. This relates the the Africans because they were just shoved in and like the suitcases, uncared for. This is unfair treatment to the Africans because they are human beings and they get shoved and compressed just like suitcases. With everyone being crowded into
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