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This 4 page paper begins by reporting the foods enslaved persons were given on the slave trade ships. It then discusses the types of food most slaves were given with reports about some differences between plantations. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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(Holloway). Yams seem to have been the most common food on slave cargo ships (Holloway). They estimated each individual would need 200 yams to survive the trip (Holloway). Some
ship logs reflected ships carrying cornbread, fish, rice, plantain, and yams (Holloway). Some reflected they carried limes, peanuts, palm oil and pepper (Holloway). A report from one of the slave
survivors reflected a third of the enslaved captives died on the trip, they had only yams to eat (raw) and there was barely enough to stay alive (Holloway). This same
person who was a freed black said that by the time they docked, he couldnt even stand up (Holloway). Different writers report that the typical diet for a plantation slave
was "cornmeal, cornmeal, salt herring, and pork" (Oracle Think Quest Education Foundation 2007). Sometimes they would get the corn instead of the cornmeal and would have to pound into meal
to use (Spartacus International). One slave reported where he lived they had two meals each day, breakfast at twelve and supper much later and that they were given corn and
"three and a half pounds of bacon" each Sunday (Oracle Think Quest Education Foundation 2007). Another writer reported that at different places, breakfast was around ten or eleven in the
morning (Spartacus International). A slave at a different location reported being given a "peck of sifted cornmeal, a dozen and a half herrings, and two and a half pounds of
pork" (Oracle Think Quest Education Foundation 2007). In some cases, slaves were given monthly rations that would include the same types of food. Frederick Douglas reported being given a bushel
of corn meal and eight pounds of fish or pork (Spartacus International). House slaves might have been given more and better food than field slaves (Spartacus International). It would depend
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