Compare And Contrast Falconbridge's Account Of The Slave Trade And Middle Passage

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Falconbridge’s account of the slave trade and middle passage was so vivid and descriptive that it made it hard to read. This is just but one person’s story about the Atlantic slave trade, and I am almost positive that there were more brutal and unfathomable tales that are still unheard of. One element of the slave trade that was graphically portrayed was the way slaves were transported and held. The nature of how these people were held and treated is soul-breaking. I believe the next line quoted gives but a glimpse of the slaves’ condition. “The confined air, rendered noxious by the effluvia exhaled from their bodies and being repeatedly breathed, soon produces fevers and fluxes which generally carries off great numbers of them.” (Falconbridge

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