Answer: The true death rate for Africans transported to the Americas was much higher than the approximately one million that died during the Middle Passage. An estimated 40 per cent of the captives died before leaving Africa. The Middle Passage converted enslaved Africans to just another piece of property for the plantation owners, during the slaves being in the boat they were fed beans, corn, yams, rice, and palm oil at different times, however, the slaves were not always fed every day. If there was not enough food for the sailors and the slaves, the sailors would eat first, and the slaves might not get any food. If they did not eat then they were force fed, if they didn't open their mouth then the sailors pried it open with a metal device. Now imagine shelves like bunk beds but not quite, that was how they slept, piled on each other the thing that really gets to me is that the women during their mensural cycle had to sleep bunched up with so many people. Some slaves jumped out the boat and drowned themselves so they didn't have to be sold, A lot of them killed themselves because they knew it wasn't going to get any better.
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