“Mortality on the Atlantic produced a crisis of enormous proportions, as Africans labored under the cumulative weight of these deaths that remained unresolved. . . . Entrapped, Africans confronted a dual crisis: the trauma of death, and the inability to respond appropriately to death. This indirect violence, arguably, was the most abject experience of the captives’ Atlantic crossing.” DeathSlaveryTraumaMiddle PassageResponse To Death Book:Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora Source: Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora