________________________ itself was a hellish experience. En…

________________________ itself was a hellish experience. Enslaved peoples were segregated by gender, often stripped naked, chained together, and kept in extremely tight quarters for up to twenty-three hours a day; as many as 12-13 percent died during this dehumanizing experience. Although we will likely never know the exact number of people who were enslaved and brought to the Americas, the number is certainly larger than ten million.