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The Middle Passage: Horrors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Delve into the grim reality of the Transatlantic Slave Trade with accounts of disease, suicide, and the harrowing journey from Africa to the Americas. Learn about Olaudah Equiano's experience and the brutal conditions faced by enslaved Africans on the ships. This book sheds light on a dark chapter of history that forever changed the lives of countless individuals.

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The Middle Passage: Horrors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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  1. The Middle Passage Shantilly Pena Mallory Steffey

  2. Table of Contents • Introduction • A Sudden Change of Fate • The Ships • Disease • Suicide • OlaudahEquiano

  3. Introduction • African rulers dictated who was taken • War captives, etc. • West coast of Africa • Half never reached it • Held in dungeons under ‘slave factories’ • Sometimes held for over a year • Unsure of their fate • Were told they were to work in fields • Were suspious • Some thought they sailors were cannibals

  4. OlaudahEquiano’s Account “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?"

  5. A Sudden Change of Fate

  6. The Ships

  7. Disease • Disease was high • Small Pox • Dysentery • Dead bodies left to lie • Rats and bugs carried many illnesses • Spoiled food and drinking water

  8. Suicide

  9. OlaudahEquiano

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