Middle Passage Guiding Questions

Question: document A: 1

Answer: this textbook was written in Portugal. it could be influenced the portrayal of the Middle Passage, because they thought the passage was used for transporting slaves, or their cargo for profit

Question: document A: 2

Answer: the ship’s crew was also stuck on the boat and suffered from lack of supplies, food, hygiene, and from overheating. The slaves were crammed under the deck of the boat where there is little room to breathe. It showed the risks that the slave traders took to get their “products”

Question: document A: 3

Answer: the textbook used the word “migrations” as a way to try to describe or to justify the act of forcing the slaves to move to a different location across the ocean.

Question: document B: 1

Answer: phillips is a captain on the slave ship to Barbados. this influenced how he wrote because he saw the middle passage as an economic opening

Question: document B: 2

Answer: the ship’s crew tried to care for the slaves’ messes, keep their lodgings clean and organized, and tried to respect them

Question: document B: 3

Answer: phillips said that being a slave trader is unpleasant because they endure the Africans’ mortality and their misery

Question: document C: 1

Answer: falconbridge is a doctor on a slave ship. he witnessed the carnage of the slave trade on the Africans while also treating the sick traders. They saw it in first person and the destruction of culture

Question: document C: 2

Answer: the slaves were closely packed together on a ship, were introduced to cramped and unhygenic conditions, causing disease to spread through bodily functions and the close quarters

Question: document C: 3

Answer: the surgeons who were working on the slave ships were confined there because they needed the pay to support themselves and their families or to pay off debt

Question: document D: 1

Answer: this diagram was produced to show slave-traders how to cram the max amount of slaves onto a ship to get the maximum profit