The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was dehumanizing, and the slave trade was worked by slave owners, putting slaves through excruciating pain. In the Atlantic Slave Trade and Middle Passage booklet, source 2, written by Alexander Falconbridge in An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (1788), it states that “The enslaved Africans were chained together by the neck, hand, and foot, wearing sometimes the most uncomfortable and miserable gear.” Source #3 by Martin Duberman, In White America, The New American Library (1965) says, “Any slaves who had died during the night (or too sick to recover) were unchained and thrown overboard.” The slave crew degraded were no longer of use to them (no gain) and tying them like dogs on a leash to control