Africans willingly boarded ships carrying them into slavery.

[Jack Rabbit]

31. To underscore the dehumanization of Jews, they were transported in cattle cars

The same is true of those convicted of trumped up charges in Stalin's Soviet Union. They were sent to labor camps to build roads and canals in cattle cars. The purpose of the labor camps was to furnish cheap labor for Stalin's building projects. The purpos of Stalin's brand of justice was to provide the laborers, when the convicts weren't shot. Some worker's paradise, eh?

Of course, cattle cars weren't practical for a trans-Atlantic crossing, so the kidnapped Africans were chained to their beds in the cargo hold of a ship.

Thank you. Cali, for pointing out that a once free human being is no longer free if he's taking directions by an agent of oppression with a gun.