Middle Passage Report

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Its been 872 days since I stepped foot in America. Me and my family were brought here as slaves through the Middle Passage. Arriving in Jamestown, Virginia. Me, father, mother and little Saddie. Since that exact secound my life has become a nightmare. Stripped from our freedom and against our will we were taken aboard a ship of about 50 people. It was a long journey. Each night I dreamt of leaving the ship and thought maybe I can escape but it didn’t go like that. The ship was tightly packed many diseases spread at one point I thought I was going to receive it as well. Aboard the ship I saw horrific things. People were brutally whipped. Some tried to kill themselves, some achieved it others being caught were brutally beaten. At one pont I thought

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