The Middle Passage and Triangle Trade

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The Middle Passage and Triangle Trade

Triangle Trade The first leg of the voyage carried sugar and molasses from the West Indies to the British Colonies Next, rice, sugar, tobacco, indigo, furs, and rum went to Europe Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo of finished goods such as cloth was exchanged for African slaves Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar, tobacco, rum, tools, iron or some other product

Middle Passage The middle leg of a three-part voyage -- a voyage that began and ended in Europe Long journey that African slaves took from Africa to the Americas : the middle part of the Triangle Trade For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast Slaves had already made the long, difficult journey from Africa's interior -- but just barely Out of the roughly 20 million who were taken from their homes and sold into slavery, half didn't complete the journey to the African coast They would commonly die along the way

Middle Passage The African slaves had absolutely no clue as to where they were going Africans who had made the Middle Passage to the plantations of the New World (the Americas) did not return to their homeland to tell what happened to those people who suddenly disappeared Sometimes the captured Africans were told by the white men on the ships that they were to work in the fields But this was difficult to believe, since, from the African's experience, tending crops took so little time and didn't require many hands

Middle Passage Many African slaves came to the conclusion that the Europeans were cannibals who were eating the slaves!

Middle Passage Olaudah Equiano, An African captured as a boy who later wrote an autobiography, recalled this: “When I looked round the ship too and saw a large furnace of copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer doubted of my fate and quite overpowered with horror and anguish, I fell motionless on the deck and fainted. . . . I asked if we were not to be eaten by those white men with horrible looks, red faces and long hair?"

Middle Passage So you think you have it rough ehhh??? Well…Imagine this: The slaves were branded with hot irons and restrained with shackles Their "living quarters" were often a deck within the ship that had less than five feet of headroom -- and throughout a large portion of the deck, sleeping shelves cut this limited amount of headroom in half With 300 to 400 people packed in a tiny area -- an area with little ventilation and, in some cases, not even enough space to place buckets for human waste - - disease was prevalent According to Equiano, "The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us. This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died.“

Middle Passage Faced with the nightmarish conditions of the voyage and the unknown future that lay beyond, many Africans preferred to died But even the choice of suicide was taken away from these persons From the captain's point of view, his human cargo was extremely valuable and had to be kept alive and, if possible, uninjured A slave who tried to starve him or herself was tortured. If torture didn't work, the slave was force fed with the help of a contraption called a speculum orum, which held the mouth open

Middle Passage Despite the captain's desire to keep as many slaves as possible alive, Middle Passage mortality rates were high Although it's difficult to determine how many Africans died en route to the new world, it is now believed that between ten and twenty percent of those transported lost their lives If 20 million total were taken: 10% of 20,000,000 = 2,000,000 20 % of 20,000,000 = 4,000,000 Thus, it’s estimated that between 2 and 4 million innocent slaves lost their lives during the Middle Passage