Middle passage conditions8/30/2023 ![]() 388) Some slaves did everything in the power to end their life some tried to throw themselves into the Atlantic Ocean, but many were prevented from doing so by the crew and then they were nearly beaten to death to serve as an example, to prevent other slaves from doing the same. Drawings of Western Africa, University of Virginia Library, Special Collections, mss 14357, no. The slaves were so tired of the detrimental conditions In which they have been forced to live In slave ships, under the most abominable and hellish hyglenlc conditions that they preferred to die, as Olaudah Equiano (2013) writes, "two of my wearied countrymen who were chained together (l was near them at the time), preferring death to such a life of misery, somehow made through the ettings and Jumped into the sea immediately another quite dejected fellow, who, on account of his illness, was suffered to be out of iron, also followed their example" (p. Transatlantic Slave Trade : Middle Passage Middle Passage African canoes and European sailing vessels, Corisco Island, Equatorial Guinea, mid-19th century. The Middle Passage (or Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade) was a voyage that took slaves from Africa to the Americas via tightly packed ships. They rarely had enough to eat or drink, and would grow sick in drove, than many of them wanted to die instead of living a life full of cruelties. They were also forced to sleep cramped together few of them barely escaped without their limbs atrophying. They were treated as cargo, chained one with the other and had to perform their bodily functions while chained. The lack of freedom on the slave ships caused great distress to the enslaved Africans. ![]() The conditions the Africans slaves endured during the Middle Passage were horrific no human being should be force to live in such deplorable conditions. " (1388) "The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the umber In the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us" (p. An example of the terrible condition in which the slaves lived is narrated by Equiano (2013) as: "The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so Intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time. The author starts by giving details of the terrible conditions that he encounters on board of a slave ship. Ocean in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. The true death rate for Africans transported to the Americas was much higher than the approximately one million that died during the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage was called the route of the triangular trade through the Atlantic Some individuals resisted the horrors of the Middle Passage the only way they could, through starvation and suicide. During the Middle Passage, slaves were kept in appalling, inhumane conditions, often chained to one another for long periods of time. No human being should ever have to endure what the African slaves and their families endured during slavery and voyage through the "The Middle Passage". The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Myself" Is a traumatic narrative of the horrors suffered by the Africans slaves of the 18th century, which has touched my heart.
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