Yeah, I heard that too in the stories I read. During the journey, families were forced to push their children that died in the hold of the ship out through small port holes (breaking their bones to do it) just to bury them at sea, because they weren't allowed on the deck. Then when the ship reached its destination, those who couldn't afford the trip (most of them), they would remain in the hold of the ship, sometimes for weeks or months, until someone would buy them as an indentured servant, sometimes working for decades in grueling conditions. Families weren't kept intact either. Children were sold off to different people, wives to others, and husbands elsewhere, sometimes never seeing each other again. It paints a really different picture than the one the mainstream is trying to push: that black people were alone in their suffering during that time and that white people never wanted for anything.
It ought not to be forgotten that harsh suffering, of a sort unimaginable to residents of the first world today, wasn't exceptional but rather common and familiar to nearly everybody in these time. The 1600's were brutal and vicious and nothing would change for the better until well into the 1800's. The 1800's was called the golden epoch because things actually began to be sort of acceptable and nice for a noticeable proportion of the population. Not all of them, or even most of them...just enough to see that a difference had been made.
Yeah, I heard that too in the stories I read. During the journey, families were forced to push their children that died in the hold of the ship out through small port holes (breaking their bones to do it) just to bury them at sea, because they weren't allowed on the deck. Then when the ship reached its destination, those who couldn't afford the trip (most of them), they would remain in the hold of the ship, sometimes for weeks or months, until someone would buy them as an indentured servant, sometimes working for decades in grueling conditions. Families weren't kept intact either. Children were sold off to different people, wives to others, and husbands elsewhere, sometimes never seeing each other again. It paints a really different picture than the one the mainstream is trying to push: that black people were alone in their suffering during that time and that white people never wanted for anything.
It ought not to be forgotten that harsh suffering, of a sort unimaginable to residents of the first world today, wasn't exceptional but rather common and familiar to nearly everybody in these time. The 1600's were brutal and vicious and nothing would change for the better until well into the 1800's. The 1800's was called the golden epoch because things actually began to be sort of acceptable and nice for a noticeable proportion of the population. Not all of them, or even most of them...just enough to see that a difference had been made.