The New World Times
February 10, 2015
Slave Trade in Africa The Europeans just arrived in Africa. They are capturing some of the Africans for their plantations and they are being bribed with guns and other useful materials such as cloth, rum, and tobacco for slaves. Their plan is working. Many Africans are giving the Europeans slaves for guns. It won’t be long till they get all of Africa. The slaves have to stay in tight chains until they reach the boat.
Middle Passage When Africans are enslaved they are taken on a boat to the Atrip from Africa to America is called the Middle Passage. It is horrible for the
Slave Arrival When a slave arrives there are two ways they could have been sold. One way they are sold is they can be sold at “scrambles” where the price was the same for each slave. They are also sold in slave auctions. The slaves stand on auction blocks while white property owners bid on each slave. When a child's parent was a chattel slave, they automatically became a slave. A chattel slave is a slave who is owned forever and whose children and children’s children are automatically enslaved.Slaves worked in large plantations, mines, and tobacco fields.If a slave got lucky enough to work in an owners house, he or she would possibly be provided with leftover food and old clothes. If a slave did not understand the orders from their owners they could be whipped, burned, or even kiled. By the 1690s, about 15,000 Africans had reached the America, but in the first decade
slaves, pairs of them were chained from their wrists and ankles, they are allowed little exercise, and they are packed together so tightly they can barely move. The ships decks have mucus and blood everywhere, many slaves get sick and die! The trip lasts 5 to 12 weeks. Some slaves tried to save their strength, others rebelled against the crew. The ones who survive are brought to America and into slavery!
of the 18th century, another 13,000 people arrived, and the amount of slaves grew another 13,000 in the second decade. This dramatic rise continued into the1730s because of the arrival of 62,000 Africans.
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