African Slave Trade In The 1800s

Imagine being trapped in a boat with thousands of other people. The boats were hot, uncomfortable, and cramped. There were unequal rights, such as women getting to go on deck longer than men. There was abuse on the boats. One example of abuse was slaves were whipped. The Europeans were taking the Middle Passage to get Africans to Europe and North America, in the 1500’s, also called the African Slave Trade. The African Slave Trade started in 1500’s. Africans were taken away from homes and put on ships to North America and Europe. Crew members would load the slaves on the boats in pairs chained around the ankles. Another way to load the slaves on the boat was to put the slaves into rows and tie them together by the neck. The
Most men and women worked in the fields, but some got the privilege to work in homes. There were more men captured because there were more fields to tend. There were less African women taken, but almost a fourth of them were pregnant at the time they got captured. The Americans and Europeans were not expecting pregnant Africans, but they needed as many slaves as they could get. The women kept working until about a week before childbirth. The infant mortality rate went sky high because the African babies were undernourished. The African Slave Trade was really thriving in the 18th century. The African Slave Trade started dying down around the early 1800s. Only around 2 percent of Africans lived through the trade by being a slave. Others escaped or paid their way out. Most the slaves that escaped ran away during the night when the owners were sleeping. The trade actually ended around 1807 and 1808. The trade ended because of protesting and the Civil war. A lot of Africans died just because of