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Between 1500 and 1900 it’s estimated that around 12 million African men, women, and children were forcibly taken from their homes by Europeans before being cruelly transported thousands of miles across the Atlantic. It was the largest single forced migration of people in history, and its trauma spans generations. Those who survived the horrific “Middle Passage” would then be sold, often separated from their families, and put to work as enslaved workers on plantations throughout the New World, their labor, knowledge, and skills stolen by their enslavers. These enslaved people had no rights, were tortured daily, and their children were stolen and sold away, among dozens of other human rights abuses that occurred by rote on the plantations.
