Slave Trade
Everyone does something once in their life that they wish they haven’t done. When people are young they do dumb things sometimes, and when they look back on it as that person gets older they regret what was done. As a young country, the United States had made mistakes as well. One of the biggest mistakes was the slave trades’. The slave trade was extremely grueling on the Africans, especially in the aspects of the crossing, their lifestyles, and the diseases that were caught along the way. “The United States brought a little less than 500,000 slaves from Africa.”(3) Ships brought all the Africans at this time. With this many Africans on one boat it was a pretty tight space, and also the heat didn’t really help with this situation. All of this made it extremely hard to breathe, it nearly suffocated them. They practically had to sleep on top of each other. Don’t just think that the Americans would let them have a free ride over to America with just tight sleeping quarters. Everyday they had chores to do, like wash and clean the deck daily.(1) This would be torture in the hot sun especially since most of the slave had to travel naked.(1) There were many more duties of their everyday life on the boats. Well at least th
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Dont Americans, Rarely Africans, Jamestown Virginia, , Africans Africans, Africa3 Ships, couldnt tell, eat slaves, african slaves,
Approximate Word count = 882
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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