No. Millions of Africans were abducted from their countries of origin with nothing being provided to them. They were taken away and sent to the Americas and the Caribbean; they never returned to their families. These folks were packed closely together, side by side, underneath the decks. They had been bound and chained. Many people perished along the voyage due to a shortage of food, foul odors, illness, and poor sanitation; others were thrown overboard. They checked their physical size, strength, and teeth as they stood on the blocks to be sold to the highest bidder. sent to work in the cotton fields and sugar plantations seven days a week, from the break of dawn till the darkness of the night. Europeans, treated them inhumanly.