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The horrors of the Middle Passage
A young slave boy recounts his experiences of being held by slave traders before being shipped across the Atlantic on the Middle Passage. He describes the horrendous conditions on board a slave ship. Slaves regularly resisted what was happening to them and occasionally took control of the slave ships.
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