Summary Of Africans In America Terrible Transformation

In Africans In America Terrible Transformation written by PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) writes an article stating the historical background of African Americans that were captured and enslaved from Western Africa from 1450-1750. About 200,000 Africans were transported to Europe Islands in the Atlantic. But after Columbus excursion, Slave traders found a new market for slaves: New World plantations. From this, they were used for the planting crops for the Europeans that were uneducated how farm such as, rice, cotton, tobacco, and sugar in the south. It wasn’t till the American Revolution where they protest against “enslavement” from the British and demands from American “liberty” for some hope of being free from bondage . After reading

From loaded uncomfortable space, diseases, and even death. Many were crowded together forced to lie on their back bare knowing that it could only be someone's feces, urine, blood, which increases medical conditions in the small quarter (section 6 part 1). I can't even imagine how terrible that must be especially if you had a child forced to be in that area. I would honestly rather try to figure a way out or die because the situation sounds unbearable to live in for 60-90 days. Many desperate slaves actually attempted suicide by going overboard to drown themselves “often did I think many of the inhabitants deep much happier than myself“ (Equino: section 6 part 1). Not to mention, when it informed that women were used sexually for pleasure from white men and they believed they were doing them a favor becuase having intercorse with theem is a gift, but considering the same interactions with a black man would be considered animalistic and inhuman angered me. Though Europeans may have also started to developed symptoms the colored were consumed with such as, smallpox, yellow fever etc .from relations with the colored women. Over the centuries, “between one and two million” people died in the expedition (section 6 part