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Try walking around without wiping your butt for a day or a week. Yep now try laying down in shit for 4-6 weeks, most of it isnt your own. Then add some blood and some mucus. Then grab some chains. Slavery was that bad. dont u ever fucking tell me it wasnt! (via howtobenoladarling)
Not to mention every now and then you were raped by those that were working the ships. Male and female were raped.
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24 hrs laying in extremely tight positions with hundreds of people that are suffering from all kinds of diseases due to malnutrition. Weather wasnt always the way the ship owners planned and voyages took longer than usually, the longest I was told by a professor was a whole year.
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Most people have no idea what happened to our ancestors, and that’s due to the fact that the powers that be want to act like it never happened.
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Reblogging some real shit from my Liked posts. Because fuck you.
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Harsh reminder. YES, IT WAS THAT BAD.
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The sheer amount of dead bodies thrown overboard attracted tons of sharks, and over time was enough to change their migration patterns. Yeah, you heard right - the slave trade affected the fucking marine ECOSYSTEM.
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THIS^
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BUT the entire 4-6 months was not spent on a boat. there was the long walk from the interior of africa to the coast (assuming that you come from the interior and not the coast, which was more likely the longer the trade went on) with heavt ass iron harnesses and chains to keep you from running away, there was the time spent in captivity *waiting* to board the boat, THEN there is the passage. complete with bad weather, supplies (i.e. food) running out, no space, rape, etc. and then once folks landed that wasn’t necessarily the end either, folks who went on to north america (and other americas) were “seasoned” in the caribbean, which often meant a slave auction, followed by MORE time in a boat, then MORE traveling through an interior before the middle passage came to an “end” for that particular slave. or you stayed in the caribbean and were worked to death on a sugar plantation, more than likely.
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this is important.
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