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A 5 page paper which examines the experiences of the slaves in the Middle Passage. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of ships, packed in, beaten, and treated worse than livestock. The slaves were considered valuable commodity but they were still treated horrifically and many died in the Middle Passage, the
passage to the Americas, because of this treatment and because of their fears. The following paper examines the Middle Passage and how the slave were treated. The paper also seeks
to uncover whether one sort of slave ship captain (English, Portuguese, French, Dutch) was worse than another for inflicting cruel treatment. The Middle Passage "The voyage from the
African coast to the Americas was, by all accounts, one of the most horrible in all of maritime history" (Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, 2004). The voyage lasted anywhere from
6 to 8 weeks and in most cases the slaves were held below deck. "Their passage across the Atlantic Ocean was dominated by suffering, sickness and fear" (Mel Fisher Maritime
Heritage Society, 2004). In the following we see an excerpt, relating to slavers, from a document dated 1859 from the Congo Coast: "...they sail cautiously yet boldly in, anchor, and
in two or three hours are filled with negroes, who are carried off to them in canoes. The refractory ones are clapped in irons, or made drunk with rum; and
in this stupefied condition they are carried aboard, stowed in a sitting posture, with the knees drawn up so closely that they can scarcely breathe, much less move" (Mel Fisher
Maritime Heritage Society, 2004). From another perspective, in learning more about these slave ships and their crews, we note that the ships were really nothing more than merchant ships
that had generally been altered to house people instead of other commodities. The captains of these ships, from a perspective that does not discuss their cruelty or intentions, were individuals
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