"<span>a. It was the middle leg of a three-legged journey, a leg in which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas" would best describe the "Middle Passage" which was extremely brutal. Many slaves died en route. </span>
After the American Revolution, rich white men wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, but there are several groups in America who were not granted equal rights to this. Groups of people who were not white, rich, women, Jews, Moslems, African-Americans, Native Americans, and poor white men were not considered "equal" in America in the year 1776.
The Atlantic Slave Trade was mostly organized in West Africa.
