It was horrific to take trip to American Colonies from Europe as Gottlieb Mittelberger, a German schoolteacher and organ player, traveled to Pennsylvania in 1750 described his trip in the diary and he returned to Germany four years later. The passage is taken from his diary in which, he wrote about hardships he faced during his time in American colonies. This passage is pretty much about him selling himself to become indentured servant to pay for the money they borrowed for the voyage and had no choice but to sign long term labor contract that could separate a family. Because indentured servant was traded like slaves but they weren’t a piece of property. After their contract expired they were free to do whatever they wanted with their lives. In his diary, he vividly describes the voyage, death, arrival and the outcomes of an event that happened during the passage. …show more content…
He describes the voyage being equal to hell, because many people were becoming sick and dying of illness caused by the water. In his diary, he states “these ships terrible misery, stench, fumes, horror, vomiting, many kinds of sea-sickness, fever, dysentery, headache, heat, constipation, boils, scurvy, cancer, mouth-rot, and the like, all of which come from old and sharply salted food and meat, also from very bad and foul water, so that many die miserably.”. Addition to that hunger, thirst, frost, heat, anxiety and many more factors caused a lot of harm mentally and physically to many people, especially the sick, which made this voyage