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The M iddle Passage. S hantilly Pena Mallory Steffey. Table of Contents. Introduction A Sudden Change of Fate The Ships Disease Suicide Olaudah Equiano. Introduction. African rulers dictated who was taken War captives, etc. West coast of Africa Half never reached it
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The Middle Passage Shantilly Pena Mallory Steffey
Table of Contents • Introduction • A Sudden Change of Fate • The Ships • Disease • Suicide • OlaudahEquiano
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
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?"
Disease • Disease was high • Small Pox • Dysentery • Dead bodies left to lie • Rats and bugs carried many illnesses • Spoiled food and drinking water
