The Middle Passage

We were taken from our homeland by strange people with very pale white skin who shouted loudly at us in a weird language that we could not understand. Then they proceeded to chain us together and t forces us to get on one of their floating machines. They made us go under the floor of these big vessels and sit so close together that we could not move and could barely breathe. Next these awful vessels started to move! Many people got sick around us and were whipped and mistreated too. After a week our space started to reek terribly. At this point some people had tried to revolt and were whipped and killed. The days seemed to drag on forever; I stopped eating the terrible slop that they gave us and tried to starve myself to death. Then the masters came over and used a machine to pry open my jaws and force me to eat so I could not die. As time went on I could barely breathe due to the awful smell of death, decomposition, and waste that overtook the area that they kept us in.

Finally the machine stopped moving. Then the awful masters opened the door that kept us down in the dark and forced us to get up and go outside. I kept tripping and falling because my muscles were so weak. Then they made us stand on stages while many other white people poked and prodded at us. Finally I was made to go with a person who I realized had bought me for money. So while I thought when I first got off the boat that the nightmare would finally be over, I know realize that it was just beginning.

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