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The Middle Passage
the africans did not magrate they were captured in forced in slavery
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the middle passage
The starting and ending points of the middle passage in that slaves spent most of the voyage below deck, manacled and then were sold. this happened in 1444 when the Portuguese sailors captured coastal Africans.
white people
African Diaspora
The Africans were captured because the Americans wanted them to be slaves. On the voyage to America, the Africans were treated really badly. They were whipped and beaten. Some women gave birth on the boat, and some jumped off into the sea because they didn't want their children to become slaves.
West African slave traders
African Diaspora
It was called the Middle Passage . When Africans were carried overseas to the colonies and the West Indies
Other Africans captured and enslaved them.