The Other Middle Passage does an excellent job of showing the reader what difficulties African slaves faced in that part of the continent. This essay makes a good case for importance of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean. The suffering that the slaves endured on both trade routes was horrendous. The point of this article was to discuss the conditions of the Africans slaves and how they survived. It is hard for one to imagine enduring the pain and exhaustion experience aboard those ships. The majority of the slaves that were traded in the Indian Ocean ended up in the Middle East or Asia. Sri Lanka has small population with African roots as a result of the slave
The Other Middle Passage does an excellent job of showing the reader what difficulties African slaves faced in that part of the continent. This essay makes a good case for importance of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean. The suffering that the slaves endured on both trade routes was horrendous. The point of this article was to discuss the conditions of the Africans slaves and how they survived. It is hard for one to imagine enduring the pain and exhaustion experience aboard those ships. The majority of the slaves that were traded in the Indian Ocean ended up in the Middle East or Asia. Sri Lanka has small population with African roots as a result of the slave