A former slave, Ottobah Cuguano remembered slaves to be ‘well fed’ and ‘treated well’. Another former slave, Olaudah Equiano wrote a story of his life experience as a slave who went through a hard life.
He wrote that some slaves owned inferior slaves themselves. Other slaves who were treated poorly worked within their master’s household as domestic servants or as agricultural labourers.
The causes for the deaths of many African slaves are where mainly diseases, limited food and many more. Many died during and after arriving to Europe because they were exposed to diseases by Europeans. The highest mortality rates were between 1590 - 1699 and between 1700 and 1749 on the Spanish ships. Much of the deaths were due to the result of inadequate food and water during the Middle Passage. Diseases which were unavoidable resulted because of human excrement that was allowed to build up in holds of the ships. Other attributes to the…show more content… They also had to work as household servants as most European servants came around to work for themselves. Europeans chose Africans for a number of reasons. Some of the reasons to treating Africans inferior were because they were darker skinned and the other reason was because the Africans slaves are used to doing farming. The African slaves brought to Europe already knew how to do farming because they did it in their own countries. Many of the farming tools came from Africa like the spade which was used to work on soil. Most of the farming tools used in Europe came from the Igbo people of Nigeria, West Africa. They had to work in gold mines which was long as 18 hours a day and 6 days a week. They worked in terrible conditions which led to death or severe illness because of diseases. They also worked as farmers, merchants, priests, soldiers, goldsmiths and musicians to survive in
