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It is not surprising that over 15% of people died before the ships even reached there destination, because how poorly the people were treated on the ships.

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A Brief History of Slavery That You Didn’t Learn in School (Published 2019)

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A child’s shackles, a West African legacy, a black sergeant in the Union Army — these are stories you need to hear.

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Sometime in 1619, A slave ship took people from Africa and trapped them on a boat. Almost half of the slaves died before the ship was seized by two English pirate ships. The slaves that were still alive were taken to Point Comfort.

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The Slave ships were so horrible that some people chose to commit suicide by starvation and drowning. soon the people on the ships were forced in to a small space and sold when they arrived.

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I think it is horrible that 26% of the captives are children. I also didn't like that the children have to where iron shackles.

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Queen Njinga had to flee her kingdom because of a Portuguese attack. She later provided shelter for runaway slaves. Queen Njinga was known for her courage and resistance against the Portuguese.

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In 1832 Rhoda Phillip was sold along with her mother, Milley, and her sister Martha. Her and her family were sold for $550. The person who bought them was Thomas Gleaves. She was enslaved by him till the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. He also bequeathed her into his family under his will, where she was listed for a $200 value.

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The sugar fields were torture to all who worked on them. When in the fields the slaves were maimed burned and killed. The average life was only seven years on the sugar cane fields.

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Slaves worked so hard in the sugar fields that the work brought them to their deaths.  Slave owners were unaffected by their workers' deaths and prepared for a "turnover" so new slaves could come the their fields,

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I can't believe that people in our country were that heartless that they would make slaves work for six days a week and the job was so grueling that they had a little life span of only 7 years!!

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In the beginning of the declaration of independence it says, all men are created equal, but the slaves were not included in that even though they never even asked to be slaves, and they don't deserve to be slaves.

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The slave ships would put nets around the boat so that none of the slaves could commit suicide.

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During 1846, Colonial Henry W. Adam, of the 168th Regiment, Virginia Militia, created a The Slave Patrols. Theses patrols would look for illegal gatherings of slaves. The slaves would be returned to their masters/mistress, and would be given at most 20 lashes.

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I think it is crazy that they would put children in those shackles and keep them like that.

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They people in control of the ship were so brutal that people tried to commit suicide almost every ride.

Sometimes crew members even put nets around them so they wouldn't escape.

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In 1624 her brother died, so she had to be crowned queen. She was now the queen of Ndongo, or present day Angola or south Africa. After 2 years had passes she had to flee because of a Portuguese attack. Portuguese was trying to colonize Angola to acquire more people for the slave trade.

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I think that it is really cool how she stood up against the government and told them that they them self's were breaking the law by not following the law that said all men are born free. She sued the government and won. She later changed her name from Mum Bett to Elisabeth Freemen.

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I agree with Adia on how unfair it was to have children be captured and to have them in iron shackles.

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Sugar is not worth a humans life, no matter how they look or how they dress, people deserve to live, especially if they are doing something they never signed up to do.

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Thomas Jefferson wrote about how slaves should be free and not owned. But he was a owner of enslaved people. He owned slaves to do his cleaning and he was a father to some enslaved children.

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How come some black people got to be free while others were still enslaved? Why couldn't all the slaves be free and how did he get his freedom if he was black?

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Queen Njinga after being chased out if her territory, she made peace with the portuguese.