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The Growth of Slavery in the 1800s- Jack Borges

The Middle Passage- The voyage to the Colonies: The voyages to the Colonies and Parts of South America from Africa were called the "Triangle Trade System" because they came from the European ports stopped in Africa to pick up their "merchandise" and then headed off to North America. The average voyage from the European ports to West Africa to North America would take anywhere from five to twelve weeks. The ships that the slaves traveled on were disgusting. When on the ships the men and women would stay chained to wood "beds." They slaves would be going to the bathroom in the same place that they slept and after a while the bottom cabins of the boat would be knee high in feces and vomit. This would obviously be the cause for a lot of the diseases that slaves got while on board the ships. One of the ship captains, John Newton, said " //Every morning, perhaps, more instances than one are found of the living and the dead fastened together."// This obviously shows you how bad and miserable the conditions on the boats must // have been. // Once they dropped off their cargo in the Colonies to be sold they headed back to their ports which they came from. 

// The Slave Trade and Slave Auctions- The slave auctions would take place after the voyage over from africa when the slaves have first arrived in the Colonies. They would be put up onto a wooden platform of some sort and then the plantation owners who have come to buy their slaves closely examine each one. Some slaves have described the examinations as "repulsive" and humiliating has the plantation owners stuck their fingers into their mouths and felt around their legs making sure they were healthy. The Slave Trade was used mainly for slaves that were disobedient. Their owners would bring them to a slave trade if they would run away, broke a rule, or just delirberrately worked slowly. Prices for slaves were all over the place. It all depended on how badly the person wanted it. In our book __Copper Sun__ the bidding for the main character, Amari, started at 10 pounds and the final bidding was 60 pounds because the winner wanted her for his son who had just turned 16 today. So it all depends on how badly the buyer wants the slave. //







//**__Sources:__**//

Tom, Feelings. "The Middle Passage." n. pag. Web. 5 Jan 2010. .

Costa, Thomas. "Virginia Gazette (Parks), Williamsburg, April 14 to April 21, 1738. ." //Virginia Runaways //  1. Web. 7 Jan 2010. .

IngolfVogeler, Ingolf Vogeler. "West African Slave Trade Map." April 1, 1998: 1. Web. 7 Jan 2010. .

"Slaves." //African Cultural Center //  n. pag. Web. 7 Jan 2010. .

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">Drapper, Sharon. //Copper Sun//. New York, USA: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2006. 301. Print. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">

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