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Who created the middle passage?
The slave trade created middle passage as a way to transport slaves from Europe across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas With minimal trouble. The conditions of middle passage were deplorable with the odor unbearable and sickness, disease, and raw sewage in abundance. Many slaves died in route, and many more were unsellable due to their weakened condition.
What happened during the middle passage?
The "Middle Passage" refers to the trade routes from West Africa to the Caribbean, South America, and the southern United States that ships took to transport Africans as slaves for sale away from their homes. The Middle Passage is one of the most brutal and disgusting stories in human misery caused by other humans: Africans were often chained aboard the ships and underfed or not fed, forced to lie tightly in bunks in their own excrement, without the benefit of sun or water, for the four to eight weeks of the journey. Over half of the people who were moved in ships this way died. The Middle Passage in many ways exceeds and is at least comparable the abuses that are well-known from the Holocaust of the 20th century.the ships were often followed by sharks because of the females mestrual cycles.The slaves would know this and they would jump of the ship as there last resulotion(suicide).
How many slaves were there on a slave ship in the middle passage?
A typical slave ship carried no less then 200 and no more than 500 slaves when it departed from West Africa. There may have been as many as 20 million slaves transported to the Americas over the years of the slave trade. On most voyages one third of the ship's cargo failed to complete the voyage due to poor hygiene, illness or being crushed by the number of people, That cargo loss (slaves) where merely part of the cost of doing business. A boat from the Middle Passage would have the lower decks crammed full of slaves. Normally the wasted space would only count up to around 1 or 2 metres. Life was tough for a slave. Your hands were cuffed and you would be in pitch black for a few months. Many were temporarily blinded through shock of seeing bright light after all those days.
How many slaves are in the world?
27million slaves are in the world
Describe the middle passage where almost one billion people died before they ever reached the Americas?
The Middle Passage was the section of the trade routes from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries in which African peoples were transported across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While many of the Africans died, the numbers are estimated at close to 2 million rather than one billion.
