He was responsible for writing a famous autobiography.
The Middle Passage. The Middle Passage refers to the part of the trade where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies. ... The shelves were under a metre high and often the enslaved Africans could not sit up.
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A) These companies were among the country's strongest stocks.