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The Triangular Trade: Middle Passage

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During the Triangular Trade, natural resources, goods, crops, and slaves were trade to the New World (Americas). Middle Passage was a stage of the Triangular Trade where millions of African slaves were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Islands (West Indies) and North and South America. The slaves weren’t treated fairly and in fact they were exploited. They were abused, whipped, and harmed by the Spaniards. They were kidnapped from other tribe and was sold to Spanish slave traders (Amistad). On the ship they were all converted to some type of Christianity through baptizing them with holy water (Amistad). They were chained, whipped, and fed with a little portion of food (Amistad). Their condition were so awful that most of the
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