Name: 史上最震撼Slave Ship生活大揭密！💀 (Life Aboard a Slave Ship | History)
Uploaded: 2026-02-23T12:47:48.000Z
Duration: 5 min 1 s

From about 1525 to 1866, 12 and a half million Africans were taken from their homeland and forcibly transported across the Atlantic, a journey that approximately 2 million of them would not survive.

大約從1525年到1866年，有1250萬非洲人被帶離家園，強行運送到大西洋對岸，這趟航程中約有200萬人未能倖存。

By the turn of the 18th century, European merchants were building vessels capable of transporting hundreds of enslaved people per journey.

到了18世紀初，歐洲商人建造的船隻，每趟航程就能運送數百名奴隸。

These ships had extra portholes for ventilation, weapons mounted on deck in case of rebellion, and

這些船隻有額外的舷窗來通風，甲板上還裝有武器以防叛亂，

additional compartments added below deck to take on more human cargo.

並且在甲板下方增加了隔間，以搭載更多人力貨物。

Before boarding the ships at African port cities, enslaved people were stripped of their clothing and remaining possessions and had their heads forcibly shaved during boarding, which could take weeks or even months.

在非洲港口城市登船前，奴隸會被剝光衣物和剩餘財產，並在登船過程中被迫剃頭，這個過程可能長達數週甚至數月。

Enslaved people lived on the deck of the ship in a temporary wooden house constructed by the crew.

奴隸住在船員搭建的臨時木屋裡，就在船的甲板上。

The crew also installed netting around the deck of the ship designed to catch those enslaved who might opt for death over forced servitude.

船員還在船的甲板周圍設置了網，用來捕捉那些寧願死也不願接受強迫奴役的奴隸。

Once moved below deck, enslaved people would find themselves stuffed into compartments with ceilings as low as four and a half feet where they would spend most of their voyage.

一旦被移到甲板下方，奴隸就會發現自己被塞進隔間裡，天花板低至四英尺半，他們將在這裡度過大部分的航程。

Adult men were kept separately and shackled in pairs, women usually left unchained in their designated compartment, and

成年男性被單獨關押並成對鎖鏈，女性通常不被鎖鏈，留在她們指定的隔間裡，

children often free to move about the ship.

小孩通常可以在船上自由活動。

There were no sanitary facilities of any kind.

Enslaved people were forced to relieve themselves where they sat, creating hellish conditions when combined with the heat and lack of ventilation below deck.

奴隸只能就地排洩，加上船艙下方的悶熱和缺乏通風，情況簡直像地獄一樣。

Dysentery, malaria, yellow fever, smallpox, measles, and influenza ravaged the enslaved and crew members alike.

痢疾、瘧疾、黃熱病、天花、麻疹和流感，對奴隸和船員都造成了嚴重影響。

The enslaved people generally spent about eight hours a day above deck, but

奴隸通常一天有八小時可以待在甲板上，但

were still separated by gender, with a barricado, a reinforced wall that could be used to protect crew members in case of a revolt.

他們仍然會依性別分隔，並設有加固的牆壁 barricado，以防奴隸起義時保護船員。

Enslaved people were also subject to forced exercise, which sometimes included dance and song for the entertainment of the crew.

奴隸還會被強迫運動，有時還會透過歌舞來取悅船員。

Enslaved captives deemed disobedient were tortured and beaten, usually whipped with the especially cruel Cat O9 Tails, a tool designed to inflict maximum pain.

被認為不聽話的奴隸會被折磨和毆打，通常是用一種名為 Cat O9 Tails 的殘酷鞭子，這種鞭子旨在造成極大的痛苦。

Enslaved people who refused to e their typical meal of rice and beans were forced to do so, sometimes with a speculum oris, a medieval tool used to force open a person's mouth.

拒絕吃典型米飯和豆子餐的奴隸，會被強迫進食，有時會使用 speculum oris，這是一種中世紀用來強行撬開嘴巴的工具。

Women, while usually left unshackled, were raped and sexually abused by members of the crew, sometimes arriving in the New World carrying the children of their attackers.

女性奴隸雖然通常不被鎖鏈束縛，卻會遭到船員的強暴和性侵，有時抵達新大陸時，她們已懷有攻擊者的孩子。

But it was the women, using their minuscule freedoms, who would often coordinate mutinies against their captors.

然而，正是女性奴隸利用她們微小的自由，經常協調反抗壓迫者的起義。

But these rebellions were rarely success.

The true extent of the horrors of the Middle Passage came to light in a 1783 court trial over the slave ship Zong.

Middle Passage 的恐怖真相，在 1783 年一場關於奴隸船 Zong 的庭審中曝光。

The Zong left present day Ghana in August of 1781 with 442 enslaved on board.

Zong 號於 1781 年 8 月從今日的迦納啟航，載有 442 名奴隸。

After a two month journey riddled with navigation errors, 62 enslaved people and seven crew members had perished without reaching their destination.

經過兩個月充滿導航錯誤的航程，62 名奴隸和 7 名船員已不幸身亡，未能抵達目的地。

Disease was spreading throughout the ship and fresh water was running dangerously low.

疾病在船上蔓延，淡水也嚴重不足。

Captain Luke Collingwood was afraid of the financial cost of more deaths.

船長 Luke Collingwood 害怕更多死亡帶來的財務損失。

Enslaved people that died of disease were not covered by the ship's insurance.

因疾病死亡的奴隸不在船的保險範圍內。

但溺斃的奴隸則在保險範圍內。

Collingwood ordered approximately 130 enslaved people thrown overboard.

Collingwood 命令將大約 130 名奴隸丟下船。

He claimed it was necessary to do so to halt the spread of disease.

他聲稱這是為了阻止疾病傳播的必要之舉。

At the trial between the Zong's owners and their insurance company, the owners argued that because it was legal to kill sick animals for the the health of a ship, it was legal to treat enslaved people the same.

在 Zong 的船主與其保險公司之間的審判中，船主辯稱，因為為了船隻的健康而合法地宰殺生病的動物，所以也合法地對待奴隸。

But the trial itself exposed the horrors aboard the Zong.

但這次審判本身揭露了 Zong 船上的恐怖景象。

And its story was republished by British abolitionists with the name of the ship redacted.

英國廢奴主義者重新刊登了這個故事，並刪除了船名。

Meant to show that this tragedy could happen on any ship transporting enslaved people across the Middle Passage.

意在表明這種悲劇可能發生在任何一艘載運奴隸穿越 Middle Passage 的船上。

24 years after the Zong trial, the international slave trade was outlawed in both Great Britain and the United States.

在 Zong 審判 24 年後，英國和美國都禁止了國際奴隸貿易。

It would take England an additional 26 years and the US another 58 years plus a civil war before the practice of slavery was officially abolished.

英國又花了 26 年，美國又花了 58 年加上一場內戰，奴隸制才被正式廢除。