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- Sep 1, 2018
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"After enjoying for a short time the unusual luxury of air, some water was brought; it was then that the extent of their sufferings was exposed in a fearful manner. They all rushed like maniacs towards it. No entreaties or threats or blows could restrain them; they shrieked and struggled and fought with one another for a drop of this precious liquid, as if they grew rabid at the sight of it."
"Some enslaved men and women refused to eat, hoping to starve themselves to death. This might involve holding food in their mouths and then spitting it out when the crew weren't looking although this could lead to floggings and force-feedings as punishment. "
"Leaping overboard to drown was another means of escape. There are moving descriptions of enslaved Africans jumping into the sea together, holding hands or embracing until the end. This tactic was not as easy as it might seem since many slave ships had netting to stop people jumping overboard. 'Could I have got over the nettings,' wrote one man who managed to escape from slavery, 'I would have jumped over the side but I could not'. Even if a person could make it into the sea, the crew might send a boat out to 'rescue' them."
Can you just try to picture how much suffering and abuse it must take for you to prefer to jump off a slave boat into the ocean with sharks and stuff in hopes to drown? Im glad i didn't grow up in that time as a black person. That must be the true breaking point. It literally must have been hell. I still want to ctb but it makes me feel a bit lucky my life want as bad compared to what they had to go through.
"Some enslaved men and women refused to eat, hoping to starve themselves to death. This might involve holding food in their mouths and then spitting it out when the crew weren't looking although this could lead to floggings and force-feedings as punishment. "
"Leaping overboard to drown was another means of escape. There are moving descriptions of enslaved Africans jumping into the sea together, holding hands or embracing until the end. This tactic was not as easy as it might seem since many slave ships had netting to stop people jumping overboard. 'Could I have got over the nettings,' wrote one man who managed to escape from slavery, 'I would have jumped over the side but I could not'. Even if a person could make it into the sea, the crew might send a boat out to 'rescue' them."
Can you just try to picture how much suffering and abuse it must take for you to prefer to jump off a slave boat into the ocean with sharks and stuff in hopes to drown? Im glad i didn't grow up in that time as a black person. That must be the true breaking point. It literally must have been hell. I still want to ctb but it makes me feel a bit lucky my life want as bad compared to what they had to go through.
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