The Middle Passage
From Mw
The European Slavers opperated on the coasts of Africa, fearing to venture inland. Africans who traded in Slaves brought the slaves to the coast. Upon Arrival
- Slaves where branded with a hot metal rod
- Stripped naked (in part to prevent suicide by hanging but also as part of the dehuminisation process)
- chained together
- packed into holds of the ships
- barely adequate food and water
- brought to the decks and made to dance
- frequently beaten
- sanitation facilities non existent
- sick and injured , who were deemed to frail to bring a good price were thrown overboard.
- In the cases of pregnant women who delivered babies on boards, the babies were immediately cast overboard. See Ball's Muslim
- 10%-20% of all slaves died in transit to the Americas.
