Chapter 1: The slave trade and their arrival on the American continent During the slave trade, black people was captured in Africa and brought to the USA by cargo ship by force to work as slaves. They were treated like cattle or properties as they were sold...
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Chapter 1: The slave trade and their arrival on the American continent During the slave trade, black people was captured in Africa and brought to the USA by cargo ship by force to work as slaves. They were treated like cattle or properties as they were sold by auction to plantations owners. The slaves had no name, no identity. The conditions on board were appalling, if they were sick not to contaminate others, they were thrown overboard. In this picture, we can see black slaves, attached, on each other, without clothes and food. What is striking is that men women and even children are all together in one room without toilets where illness and tensions are growing. Everyone didn’t arrive alive. The price of a slave depended of his sex, his state of health and his physical strength. Before the sale, the merchant was trying to embellish his slaves by putting oil on their bodies. Europeans brought between 10 and 12 million African slaves by ship.
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