VSP Week Four: Gustavus Vassa

VSP Week Four The middle passage was the journey from Africa to the New World that slaves would take after someone had kidnapped and bought them for slavery, this story about the journey was from the perspective of a young slave named Gustavus Vassa, he explains and tells just how horrific and shocking this trip to the New World was. Gustavus Vassa explains that the newly enslaved people had no clue who the “white men" were and what they were doing, how terrible the conditions were on the boat, and the classifications of people that were on the boat. One shocking thing about the middle passage was the fact that many of the slaves had no idea who the men capturing them were and what they were going to do with them. Vassa explains mutiple