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4.12 Assignment

4.12 Assignment

Q 1. Discuss the experiences of Africans who were captured to be enslaved in the Americas. What were some of the various stages of enslavement? Who was involved, and what were some of the methods used by Africans to resist?

Q 2. What human and natural variables could prolong the Middle passage across the Atlantic? How could the delay make the voyage more dangerous for slaves and crew?

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Around the 16th century, millions of Africans were removed from central and western Africa and made to work as slaves. They were taken across the disreputable middle passage of the Atlantic to colonies in North and South America. The captured Africans were told by the white men on the ship that they are being taken to work on the fields. About hundreds of people were forced to confine in a less than 5 feet of headroom. Most