00:0015 to 1866. European ships sail to West Africa. They don't just buy slaves. They raid villages, burn homes, chain
00:10families, march them to the coast in coffles, neck chains connecting dozens, walk for weeks. Many die on the march.
00:18The survivors reach the coast, sold to European traders, branded with hot irons, marked as property. Then loaded onto ships,
00:27the middle passage begins. Africans packed into ship holds, lying side by side, less than two feet of space per
00:34person, can't sit up, can't turn over, chained at the ankles, chained at the wrists, lying in their own waste
00:42for weeks, the smell unbearable, the heat suffocating.
00:46Disease spreads instantly. Dysentery. Smallpox. Typhoid. Dead bodies left chained to the living for days. Some go insane. Jump overboard
00:58when brought up for air, choosing death over slavery. Ship captains don't care. Calculate deaths into profit margins. Women raped
01:06by crew members. Repeatedly. Children die first, the elderly next.
01:11The voyage takes 6 to 12 weeks, depending on conditions. Storms kill hundreds at once. Ships sink regularly. Over 400
01:20years, 12 million Africans forced onto ships.
01:242 million die during the middle passage. Bodies thrown overboard. Sharks follow the slave ships. They learn the route. Fed
01:32a steady stream of corpses.
01:33The survivors? Sold in the Americas. Families separated on auction blocks. Never see each other again.
01:41The middle passage destroys languages, cultures, families, identities. By design. 12 million kidnapped. 2 million dead at sea. Sharks followed
01:54the ships.
01:54The greatest forced migration in human history. The journey that built the Americas on the backs of the enslaved.
02:01livro from the Y kuant K dataset. And the
02:02wall on the left.
02:02What?
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