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Film Summary: The Middle Passage

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After watching The Middle Passage, it really made me think and visualize what it would feel like to be kidnapped and to be made a slave. I hate anything that makes me feel confined or trapped, and from watching this film it made my fears worse. To think that slavery became very lucrative and it was not frowned upon, but actually an adaptive way of making money. People were exchanged for products and merchandise, they had to think that they were no better than cloth, rum, guns and etc. Just watching how they were chained brought back my fears of having my first child. I know it does not compare at all, but when my feet were strapped, I thought I was going to lose my mind. I do not think I would have made it being a slave.
According to the documentary, slave trade was not strictly white enforcers against black prisoners. Some Africans received rewards for capturing other Africans, and even friends would succumb to this type of behavior. The African leaders started selling their own, and even help to create the type of slaves that were wanted. …show more content…

Slaves were sold and resold. They were stripped naked at every point of exchange and inspected. Slaves were used to help feed armies and also it was felt that slavery was economically necessary, and it was felt as a method to receive power (Speilberg, n.d.). Atlantic slave trade were advanced in farming techniques with a complex irrigation system. They made cultivation of crops such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton possible. This cultivation was driven by forced trade

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