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The different ways how slaves were tortured

About 230 slaves were taken together. The next day half of them died. The dead bodies of the slaves were thrown in the Atlantic ocean(during  the Atlantic slave trade route)

When the slaves landed , many of them got infected by  diseases such as measles,dysentery
and small pox.


The slaves were encouraged to dance and sing.But not for freedom and joy.
They had to dance for entertaining the sailors. If they refused they  used to be beaten
by the sailors.

The slaves were separated from their families, and after they were sold to different places ,
they could never know that what happened to their family.


The slaves were  renamed by their masters .
There is no record of their original name.


These were some ways how slaves were tortured.

This newspaper has the names of two slaves - Emily and Sallie.(renamed by the american masters)
Image result for slave sell add on newspaper usa

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