Five things I found interesting about this assignment are:
1. More than 50 million of African slaves were taken to Europe and America through ship, of which only half made their way to the destination.
2. All the slaves were covered by insurance, so the owners didn’t use to care about slaves’ life as they can claim the compensation to the insurance.
3. Women, children as well as men were raped by the slave traders and after then, they were killed and thrown away in the ocean.
4. The slave traders enslaved African with different language so that they cannot communicate with each other.
5. Some Africans themselves were involved in promoting slave trade in their homeland.
After watching the Disney version of “A slave’s journey”, I knew that how much pain those innocent Africans had endured before dying. They were treated like a thing with which we can do anything. They were transported like big shipment, like cases of food to the New World and Europe. After watching the video, there was only one question in my mind, “how can a human be this much cruel?”