The slave trade route between Africa and North America was known as the Middle Passage. From the early 1500s to the mid-1900s Africans were treated poorly and had suffered greatly from the journey of the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage first started out by shipping four hundred fifty thousand people to the New World and then extended to almost thirteen million Africans. Africans were boarded onto ships to the New World in two major locations in Africa in which are Angola and Gabon. An outrageous number of Africans were taken to the new World from Angola. Five hundred million and four hundred ninety thousand kidnapped Africans from Angola were on ships traveling to North America and parts of the Caribbean’s in which then were sold as slaves. When ships arrived in the New World Africans were sold in several areas. These areas included: Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Mexico and Peru. The slave trade of Africans to the New World was a continuous success because of the large profits that it made. Because the Middle Passage involved European countries as an effect many Africans became familiar to some of the European languages. Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and French are examples of some languages spoken. To enhance communication between the slaves Pidgin dialects were developed overtime by the Africans. Each journey to the New World was to last six weeks but if the tides and winds were a bit more bumpy then the journey would extend to two months. The journey of the Middle Passage led Africans to suffer greatly. “Human bodies reduced to objects of commerce, shorn of all recognizable human relationships; ships tightly packed and crews morally oblivious to the awesome suffering and death that these voyages produced; bodies thrown ...
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...the north and the south tensions had aroused. In the mid-1800s a new amendment was added to the Constitution in which slavery had been abolished. Africans became freed and the Northern States abolished slavery. After years of conflict and tensions between the slaves and the Americans on December, 6th, 1807, Thomas Jefferson had signed legislation that had put an end to the African slave trade which destroyed and put an end to the Middle Passage.
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