The Extreme Cruelty of the Middle Passage

There is no other innocent African-American in the history that has experienced such a cruel experience. This notorious torture is known as the "middle pillar" which is the path in the midst of triangular trade, or the powerful voyage of African Americans from Africa to the New World. Africans were taken from their homes, boarded a terrible boat and broke up as a slave to the New World. Between 1500 and 1900, 10 million to 16 million Africans were brought to the Atlantic Ocean and 10-15% died during the voyage.

This autobiography can be read at multiple levels. It provides direct information on cruel graphics of slavery, including the process of enslavement and fear of the middle channel. It provides brilliant insight into social history of the 18th century and the first person connecting triangular trade activities in Africa, the Americas and Europe. This book is also a story of religious convertion that helps to deal with oppression of slavery and to understand travel stories that can catch a glimpse of the Atlantic world of the 18th century.

In the novel "Night", Erie Wiesel is talking about his experience as a victim of several German concentration camps during World War II. The next paragraph explains the extent of cruelty of human beings at a vibrant moment of struggle. "There is something burning in. The truck approaches the little kids and unloads it, kids are on fire in this respect" (32). As mentioned in the article, Elie Wiesel is observing a Jewish baby

In 1856, US Secretary of State Peter Parker declared that the traffic was "full of illegal, immoral, rebellious, inhuman atrocities," and that atrocity acted "fear of passing through the middle" There was sometimes exceeding. The conditions of labor services in the Americas are not good. Trafficked Chinese workers in the Tincha Islands on the coast of Peru have mined feces of birds, a fertilizer used in American farms and farms. They work in toxic environments for up to 20 hours a day, while the boss uses whipping and dog attacks as a rebellion punishment. Suicide at refugee camps is common. In South American and Caribbean farms, experienced observers report that immigrants are sometimes "worse than beasts" as "being considered slaves".

Captive Passage edited by Beverly McMillan provides background information on slave trade across the Atlantic. Although this book does not pay particular attention to women, chapters 3 and 5, "Intermediate Channel" and "African Overseas Expatriates: Resistance and Survival" build the foundation of our project, Fill the gap of basic knowledge. This source also provides a lot of images included in our video. Jennifer Morgan, in his book "Labor Women", is exploring the complex history of slavery women. Specifically, in Chapter 2, "The number of women in cargo is very different, the role of slave trade and gender across the Atlantic in West Africa." Morgan explores complex and forgotten experiences of women on the way. Resistance and their role as community builder and cultural / traditional guardian