Slave Experience In The Middle Passage
To what extend did the slave experiences in the Middle Passage (of the 17th to 18th century slave trade) led to great loss of lives?
T he reason for choosing this topic is to allow person to visualize, and to even come close to imagining the hardships that the Africans Slaves encountered in the atrocious Middle Passage. The Middle Passage made the researcher, as an historian, want to do further investigation and to fully analyze this intresting event and this is why the topic was chosen.
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After the slaves had been captured and gone through the process of selection on the coast, they were led to the ship to begin their horriffic journey through the Middle Passage. The journey of the Middle Passage, as gruesome as it was, was the second leg of the Triangular Trade. It was deemed gruesome because of the countless deaths which took place. These deaths which took place. These deaths were directly and indirectly as a result of the treatment abourd the slavers. The …show more content…
It caused lost of appittite and also great lost of life, but these horrific sicknesses did not only affect the enslaved african but also the whites themselves as seen in an account written by John Newton which was a ship captain.”Epidemical fever and fluxes, which fill the ship with noisome noixious effluvia, often breakout, infect the seamen likewise, and the oppressors, and the oppressed fall by the same stroke. I believe, nearly one half of the slaves on board, have, sometimes, died; and the loss of a third part in these circumstances is not unusual.”This showed how serious it was and all of this occured because of the atmosphere that was developed under the deck (vomit mixed with urine, faeces,dead bodies,and
T he reason for choosing this topic is to allow person to visualize, and to even come close to imagining the hardships that the Africans Slaves encountered in the atrocious Middle Passage. The Middle Passage made the researcher, as an historian, want to do further investigation and to fully analyze this intresting event and this is why the topic was chosen.
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After the slaves had been captured and gone through the process of selection on the coast, they were led to the ship to begin their horriffic journey through the Middle Passage. The journey of the Middle Passage, as gruesome as it was, was the second leg of the Triangular Trade. It was deemed gruesome because of the countless deaths which took place. These deaths which took place. These deaths were directly and indirectly as a result of the treatment abourd the slavers. The …show more content…
It caused lost of appittite and also great lost of life, but these horrific sicknesses did not only affect the enslaved african but also the whites themselves as seen in an account written by John Newton which was a ship captain.”Epidemical fever and fluxes, which fill the ship with noisome noixious effluvia, often breakout, infect the seamen likewise, and the oppressors, and the oppressed fall by the same stroke. I believe, nearly one half of the slaves on board, have, sometimes, died; and the loss of a third part in these circumstances is not unusual.”This showed how serious it was and all of this occured because of the atmosphere that was developed under the deck (vomit mixed with urine, faeces,dead bodies,and