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I found myself on the way to the new world from the ports of Morocco. I was held captive and enslaved by European settlers. I didn?t exactly know what was going to become of me, but I was truly terrified. Me and a more than 300 hundred other slaves were brought aboard on a big wooden vessel. We were placed very cramply in the cargo area of the vessel. I was only given a few inches of space from the hundreds surrounding me. It smelled bad down in the pit and there was no ventilation. The body heat and bad odor of the slaves made it practically unbearable to breath. As the journey took off we were only feed bananas and bread. But there wasn?t much to go around for everyone, a few buckets of water were carried down but again not enough. When it came time to use the bathroom there was no place to go but were you were sitting. Half of the slaves were affected from the crashing waves along the vessel causing the slaves to vomit and get seasick. As the weeks went by, it became worse and......

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