Response to "A Slaves Journey"

The following paragraph has to do with the following statement:

Slaves were treated as products, not as people.


This statement is true because the slaves during the slave trade that happened from the 1450's to through the 1800's. The slaves were first captured, usually with some type of net, and then taken to a place where they would be processed. Then they would strip them naked and chain them up. After that they would load them up on a ship, where most of them would die of some type of illness. This is also where they would be whipped, thrown off the boat into shark infested water, or even shot. With knowing all of this, you would to agree that slaves were treated as products, not as people.