![]() ![]() Reports indicate that some individuals suffocated to death, went “mad” from the tight space, or jumped overboard to escape the conditions of the ship. ![]() High risks of disease and dysentery occasionally led to ship-wide epidemics. High levels of nausea coupled with a lack of adequate food and water often resulted in a veritable swamp of human waste that in certain cases could be ankle deep when mixed with sea water. Taken forcefully from Africa and transported in horrendously cramped, unsanitary, and unsafe conditions, kidnapped Africans suffered for weeks on the long journey across the Atlantic Ocean in what is termed “the Middle Passage.” Diagrams of slave ships document the intensely restricted movement of individual persons who were often layered nearly on top of one another, or shoved into tight spaces with little to no air circulation. ![]() The Keyes Port of Washington, also known as the Georgetown Port, lies at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and K Street NW where the river once met the road-and constituted one of the final stops for imprisoned Africans entering the American slavery system. Keyes Port of Washington: Capital City Slavery Tour Text ![]()
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