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In the three packets we read Zinn, Mannix and Cowely, Takkaki they all refer to the Middle Passage and the brutality of enslavement. Specifically my interests were how the slaves white and black were treated. The women were treated with no respect at all. They were beaten and raped for no legitimate reason by their masters. “"Beatings and whippings were common. Servant women were raped. One observer testified: "I have seen an Overseer beat a …

…and the disgust these people went through is so unbearable. The fact that we were lying closely together bugged me but, I don’t think I could stand it being naked my flesh stuck to two other people packed in like sardines is unimaginable. Enslavement was a part of history that I find imorrorally and ethically wrong if I could of changed it I would have. Bibliography Zinn PAcket Cowely Packet Takakki "A Diferent Mirror"