Origins of Slavery in America
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History Channel
- 1619- First recorded enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia
- Sent through the "Middle Passage" the treacherous journey over the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to America
- More than a million died during capture and on the journey across the Atlantic.
- Children separated from mothers
- Whipped and beaten to keep them subservient
- Considered property
Robert Shelton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History CSU |
"The stench of the hold…was so intolerably loathsome that it was dangerous to remain there for any time…but now that the whole ship’s cargo were confined together, it became absolutely pestilential. The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us."
~Olaudah Equiano (Middle)
~Olaudah Equiano (Middle)
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