How do the depictions of slavery in paragraphs 7-8 help us understand it?
The language of business fails to capture the impact of the trade on those who were bought and sold. The black scholar and activist W. E.B. Du Bois, writing in the 1930s, described the slave trade this way: The âtransformation of ten million human beings out of the dark beauty of their mother continent into the new-found Eldorado of the Westâ was the most âsignificant drama in the last thousand years of human history.â The men and women captured and sold into slavery, he argued, had âdescended into Hell.â They had been ripped from their families and forced to march long distances in Africa in chains (perhaps almost two million died in the process). They were then imprisoned in slave forts, dungeons, or barracoons on the African coast before being placed into the holds of slave ships.
âThey are imprisoned in the ships,â reported a Spanish Jesuit in South America in 1627, âlying with one personâs head at another personâs feet. They are locked in the hold and closed off from the outside.â These men and women were fed âa half cup of corn or crude millet and a small cup of waterâ but once a day. âOther than that, they get nothing else besides beating, whipping, and cursing.â After this treatment, they arrived in the Americas âlooking like skeletons.â
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They stress that few slaves made it to America.
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They emphasize the horrible treatment of slaves.
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They explain how slaves were eventually freed in America.
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They compare the treatment of slaves in America and Africa.
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