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The Terrible Transformation

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When you hear the phrase, “The Terrible Transformation”, what do you think it means. The Terrible Transformation was the largest forced migration in recorded history. However, this mass movement was an instrumental in the creation of America; England joined the international trade of human being, after establishing settlements in North America. Millions of African Americans are abducted from their homelands, to labor in North American colonies. Their first battle they must face, is the horrific trip across the Atlantic, also known as the “middle passage”; this trip over the Atlantic is so horrible that least a quarter of them die. Slavery’s inhumane codes and punishments, raise Africans resistance and escapes, which causes more cruelty from
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