Imagine one day, you’re with your family plowing the fields and the next day you are cramped on ship not knowing where you are going. You are caught and sold into the Atlantic slave trade. You are making your way across the middle passage and to the Americas to be sold into slavery. The trip made across the middle passage was brutal. The conditions of the ship were often unfathomable. Slaves were packed close together to ensure that the captures could fit as many slaves on a ship as possible. They were chained as to make sure they would not escape. The height of the deck was very low so the slaves were positioned in an uncomfortable slouching position and often so crowded that slaves would often sit between each others legs with no possibility