In the middle passage they keep Slaves trapped on board with not alot of food. They whip slaves male and female, they squeese them together on the deck of the boat in good and bad conditions. And they brake thier teeth to make them eat so they can sell them healthy.
The Slave Trade was a very cruel and disapointing event that happened years and years ago.
Captives in Central Africa, 1800s
After nearly three centuries of an active slave trade, several colonial powers outlawed the practice around the early 1800s; however, the owning of slaves was not abolished until many years later. Denmark abolished the importation of slaves in 1792. Britain followed in 1807 and the United States in 1808.
Sailors from Portugal were among the first European explorers, reaching West Africa in the mid-15th century. Soon, they began to kidnap Africans to work as slaves on Portuguese sugar plantations in places such as the Canary Islands. At first, this was not a major trade. However, after Portugal, Spain, France, England and other European nations founded colonies in North America, South America and the islands of the Caribbean, they set up more plantations there. To plant, look after and harvest the sugar, coffee, rice, tobacco and later cotton grown on these farms, they began to ship thousands of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
Once they had reached their destinations, most slaves faced harsh new lives. They were forced to work long hours in the fields. Work on the sugar plantations of the Caribbean islands was especially difficult. This was because slaves had to complete their tasks on the land and then often had to go to work in the factories where sugar cane was turned into sugar and rum.
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