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The Middle Passage consisted of the voyage from Africa to the new world. Slaves were packed into the hulls, and there was little room to move for the captives.

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The United States was the destination of around 300,000 enslaved Africans, including Venture Smith. The life expectancy of new arrivals was much higher than in other regions, however, conditions were still terrible.

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The Caribbean imported around 5 million African slaves. The reason for this high number is that the conditions in the sugar plantations were so poor, that many slaves were not expected to live more than 5 years.

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Brazil had around 4 million african slaves imported, making it one of the major destinations for slave ships, in order to work the sugar and coffee plantations common here.

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In 1648, a Dutch Slave Ship crashed off the shore of Trinidad and Tobago; the crew abandoned it and left the enslaved people aboard, when they were rescued by locals, only 80 out of 400 survived.

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English and African Slavers kidnapping other Africans for the slave trade

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12.5 Million Africans were captured and sent into slavery on ships, Venture Smith was one among this vast quantity.