What happened thoughout the Slave Trade
The Middle Passage
The MIddle Passage
The middle passage take up to three month and could take longer. They were able to pack nearly 300 slaves and approximately 35 crew into most slave ships.
It was estimated that 13% did not survived the trip. The middle passage got is name because it is the middle leg of the trade triangle. The merchants thought the African slaves as cargo. The slave got rounded up and got put in to a Trading Forts until the went on the boat.
This famous diagram shows how slaves were tightly packed into the slave ships. Many of the slaves got seasick or developed diarrhoea. Any illness the could get past on quickly. Some slaves had enough of it and decided to jump over board.
It was estimated that 13% did not survived the trip. The middle passage got is name because it is the middle leg of the trade triangle. The merchants thought the African slaves as cargo. The slave got rounded up and got put in to a Trading Forts until the went on the boat.
This famous diagram shows how slaves were tightly packed into the slave ships. Many of the slaves got seasick or developed diarrhoea. Any illness the could get past on quickly. Some slaves had enough of it and decided to jump over board.
Zachary Macaulay
Zachary Macaulay
Zachary Macaulay was a Scottish slavery abolitionist. When he was 16 he was emigrated to Jamaica where he worked on a sugar plantation. There he was happy the way he saw the slaves being treated. After he left Jamaica he went back to Scotland to be a Abolitionist. Zachary Macaclay was the person who camed up with the famous words: Am I not a Man and a Brother? Lucky he got to see Slavery Abolish because he died 3 years later.
Plantations
There were three different types of plantations; Domestic servants (worked in the masters house), Skilled workers (carpenters and blacksmiths) and Field Hands. Field Hands worked the hardest having to working non-stop thoughout the day. Sometimes they worked for up to 18 hours and This was with the most minimum amount food that was possible. There was many different types of plantations such as Sugar and Cotton.
