Middle Passage By Charles Johnson

The Middle Passage was a horrible and cruel experience. Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, states, “I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me…cruelty; and this not only shown towards us blacks, but also to some of the whites themselves” (Equiano).

The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker is a great fiction novel that describes the horrifying experiences of Africans, seamen, and captains on their journey through the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage marked the water way in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the Americas. The use of slaves provided a great economy for the European countries due to the fact that these African slaves provided free labor while cultivating sugar cane in the Caribbean and America. Rediker describes the slave migration by saying, “There exists no account of the mechanism for history’s greatest forced migration, which was in many ways the key to an entire phase of globalization” (10). This tells us that African enslavement to the Americas causes a complete

The Middle Passage was a triangular route that was frequently used by many European nations who engaged in the Atlantic slave trade of millions of Africans. One such African slave was a man by the name of Olaudah Equiano, who 's autobiography spoke of the mortality rate on slave ships, what he and his fellow slaves thought of their European captors, and what their captors thought of them.

The Slave Ship was written by Marcus Rediker and it tells several accounts of the African slave trade as well as the world of the middle passage. The author discusses the nature of the slave ship and the African paths to the middle passage. Rediker also mentions the lives of historical figures (Olaudah Equiano, James Field Stanfield, and John Newton) and the roles that they had during the Atlantic slave trade. For the African captives, the sailors, and captains, the slave ship was seen as a wooden, floating, traveling dungeon and a place of terror and survival, which are also the overall main themes of the book.

It shows how life was for higher class people, lower class people, and slaves. Without this books dialect you would not be able to understand that these people lived in the South, and most did not have a great education, or in Jim’s case had no education. This book shows how some lower class families could have lived, such as when Huckleberry was living with his father and they had to take game they had killed into town to make money and not receiving an education. This book also illustrates for us that higher class people received an education and owned

It is a story about a young boy named Huck and a slave named Jim. The book is set in 1835-1845, this was before the civil war, and slavery was legal. Most people owned slaves, and many punished them to the point of extreme misery. Often African-American people would be called unfavorable names and were treated as if they were not people. Jim, an enslaved man, ran away for the fear that he would be sold to a town down south that would treat him worse than he had been being treated. Eventually he meets Huck, a boy who had faked his death, because they both disappeared at almost the exact same time, and most people assumed that Jim killed Huck. They both meet up on an island that they call a tow-head. Huck agrees to help Jim get to the north so that he can become a free man. Although later in the book, Huck continually struggles through the idea of helping Jim as people back then thought it was a sin to help a slave, and a crime to be an abolitionist. Huck eventually decides that he will help Jim even if it means that he loses all morality and is vile to most people's standards. In their effort to go north, they ended missing their turn and they go

Persecution of the innocent, a common occurrence in human history, has unfortunately stayed present in our modern era. Muslims are assaulted by islamophobes who assume them to be dangerous to us, and countless black people have been wrongfully shot by the police. These people show modern example of the motif of mockingbirds in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The book takes place in rural Alabama during the Great Depression, a time when lynching black men for false crimes was common. One of these men, Tom Robinson, is accused of rape by Mayella Ewell and is to be defended by Atticus Finch in trial. Lee expresses how it is wrong to harm those who did nothing to bother others, or ‘mockingbirds’, using the characters of Boo Radley,

The main character, Huck Finn, was an uneducated, superstitious kid from a small town who ran away from his abusive father and traveled the Mississippi with a runway slave named Jim. Along the Mississippi they run into robbers, murderers, con men, feuding families, and gullible townsfolk all while learning that people animosity towards each other are often founded in illogical fallacies and fabricated assumptions. Furthermore, Huckleberry Finn exposes motives behind

Smallwood’s goal is to bring “the people aboard slave ships to life as subjects in American social history.” Her goal is one of agency, and is an important and critical goal of any social history. Smallwood traces the transformation, step by step, of Africans to slaves. The human being is central to this transformation. As the reader moves through the book the reader slowly sees captive Africans being molded into slaves. Though Smallwood seeks to show agency

The life of African slaves in America was a difficult journey. Slaves were treated like animals, having no hope and even no dignity. Most of them were from West Africa. Roughly 20 million were pulled out of their homes, and taking from their homeland into slavery. Half didn't complete the jouney while dying along the way. It was known as the Middle Passage because the cargo was part of a thre part voyage. The first cargo arrived carrieng iron, cloths, brandy ,firarms, and gunpowder where it was exchanged for Africans. While sailing for America the slaves were exchanged for tobacco, sugar and other products. Africans were bound and shackled with chains, and their necks were tied with a leather brace. They were kept under the ship know as the

The ship’s Cargo hold was horrendous because of the “closeness of the space, 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. Some of the negative effects of the Age of Exploration were the huge death tolls suffered by Native American populations as a result of wars and transplanted European diseases, the destruction of pre-existing New World civilizations and the establishment of the Slave Trade.” Therefore, those horrible conditions caused many of the slaves to die from sickness. Moreover, the crossing of the slave ships from Africa to the America is known in history as the “Middle Passage”. The slaves were a key part of the Triangular Trade Concept. Although there are numerous reasons why slave is a prevent act of brutal behavior main reasons is for simply

The story tells the life of the American South before the Civil War. The nigger Jim, who is an industrious and simple, honest and enthusiasm, and loyal, heard that his mistress would sell him, so he fled to the north. In the midway, Jim encountered Huckleberry who is a smart, kind, and brave white boy. Huckleberry was unbearable his father’s beaten while wandering outside. They live in the pursuit of freedom, fled to the Mississippi River.

Lengel, Shawn. "Slavery Auction and Middle Passage." 4th Period American History. Hudson Middle School, Hudson. 1 Mar. 2017. Lecture.

During the sixteenth century, European merchants began to realize trading Africans for plantation labor to the Americas was the most profitable measure. The Middle Passage is the journey in which slaves were transported to The Americas from West Africa, and sold for profit. The slaves were kidnapped or purchased from their motherland, forced to march to the coast to be sold. The captives were purchased by European merchants, branded and transported to the new world (The Americas). When they arrived to the new world, the slaves were retained on the auction block, resold, and branded again to either domestic slave traders or personal owners. The profit of the slave trade is the cause for the upsurge of wealth in The Americas. The Transatlantic slave trade lasted 350 years, and there were approximately 43,600 journeys. 12.5 million Africans were stolen and forced on European and American slave vessels. Out of the 12.5 million African captives, there were roughly 10.7 million survivors. Out of all the surviving captives, around 305,326 Africans disembarked in the U.S.A. Although, many slave rebellions transpired on the ships, the intimidation, abuse (sexual, physical, and mental), violence and excruciating inhuman environments that slaves suffered during the middle passage was a technique to disenfranchise, disparage, a make the slaves less than human for the white traders to empower themselves and gain profit.

The dreadful Middle Passage was a voyage that transported African Slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to North