Question

Enslaved Africans traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to America by way of the




A. middle passage.


B. salt trade route.


C. African passage


D. African pilgrimage.
@DollyAcquah @scenters

Answer 1

if you can help me out that wood be grate lol

Answer 2

I remember about this. I have it in my textbook, but let me get it and find the page. cx

Answer 3

thanks man and you good sir get a medal !!

Answer 4

Okay. So I got to the lesson. What I have is HOW they brought the slaves through the Atlantic to the Americas:

"In the triangular slave trade, the route from West Africa to the Caribbean along which enslaved Africans were transported is called the Middle Passage. The captains of the slave ships used two methods to load the slaves: loose packing and tight packing. With the first approach, fewer slaves were loaded onto ships with the hope that such packing would reduce losses resulting from disease and death among their cargo.

However, many captains decided to use tight packing, which involved cramming hundreds of slaves into a ship. These captains knew that many slaves would die using this approach. However, they reasoned that such losses were acceptable, since more slaves would make it across using the tight packing method than would make it using the loose packing method.

In the commonly -used tight packing method, slaves were wedged together in the hold and chained to low platforms that were stacked in tiers. Each slave occupied a space that was six feet long, three feet high, and sixteen inches wide. In such cramped quarters, a person could neither stand nor turn over, and many died lying in this position.

The enslaved captives were fed meager rations of rice, millet, or cornmeal, and quantities were often further reduced to conserve supplies, thereby causing starvation and disease. In the daytime, captains allowed slaves to come on desk for exercise, during which sailors often forced them to "dance" by jumping up and down.

Disease, suicide, and mutiny caused the death of about 20 percent of the slaves transported on the Middle Passage. Sailors threw the dead or dying slaves into the ocean, where they became food for sharks. In fact, this practice became so common that schools of sharks often followed slave ships along the voyage from Africa."

This is an idea of how they were packed: http://images.travelpod.com/tw_slides/ta00/ca6/630/tightly-packed-slave-ships-cape-coast.jpg

Its weirc cause your question is asking how they traveled...and I told you, but I don't think this might help you pick an answer. >.>

Answer 5

thanks man

Answer 6

A pleasure working with you. c;

Answer 7

Lol how not? You stated in the first paragraph that it's the Middle Passage...A.
and thank you for that lesson. yay for free learning ha