The document summarizes the horrific conditions and treatment of slaves during the Middle Passage, which was the transportation of enslaved Africans by ship across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. It describes the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in the slave ships where slaves were chained together in the cargo hold with little food or ventilation. It estimates that 10-15 million Africans arrived in the Americas but nearly as many died during the voyage, making the total death toll around 20-30 million. The Middle Passage demonstrated extreme inhumanity and set the precedent for the suffering of the transatlantic slave trade.
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