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    The document discusses the African slave trade, specifically focusing on the Middle Passage experience of enslaved Africans. It describes how slave ships, known as "portable prisons", had horrific living conditions, forcing hundreds of slaves to live in cramped spaces where they slept, defecated, and urinated. The Middle Passage journey to the Americas subjected enslaved Africans to dehumanizing treatment as they were transported by European, Arab, and African slavers for profit.

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    The document discusses the African slave trade, specifically focusing on the Middle Passage experience of enslaved Africans. It describes how slave ships, known as "portable prisons", had horrific living conditions, forcing hundreds of slaves to live in cramped spaces where they slept, defecated, and urinated. The Middle Passage journey to the Americas subjected enslaved Africans to dehumanizing treatment as they were transported by European, Arab, and African slavers for profit.

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    Slavers & Enslaved

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    Francina Knights
    The document discusses the African slave trade, specifically focusing on the Middle Passage experience of enslaved Africans. It describes how slave ships, known as "portable prisons", had horrific living conditions, forcing hundreds of slaves to live in cramped spaces where they slept, defecated, and urinated. The Middle Passage journey to the Americas subjected enslaved Africans to dehumanizing treatment as they were transported by European, Arab, and African slavers for profit.

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    Francina Knights, Kristah Nowell, Jovannie Charles

    INTRODUCTION

    The African slave trade consisted of many different components, The people involved, merchandise and transportation. During this presentation we will be showing you the harsh ways Africans were treated by the Europeans, Arabs and their own brothers and sisters. This is Slavers and The Enslaved. (European, Arab, African,The Middle Passage.)

    The Middle Passage

    The middle passage is the name given to a horrifying and dehumanizing journey taken by enslaved Africans to the Americas.

    SLAVERS (ships)

    Slave ships, also known as portable prisons had horrible living conditions. Hundreds of slaves would be forced to live, shit and piss where they slept.

    Slavers Continued
    Some were specifically for carrying slaves, others were modified for carrying other cargo other than slaves; because the ships were modified the hatches were smaller and more suffocating that regular slave ships.

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