How did hunger strikes by enslaved Africans affect slaveholders during the Middle Passage?

Slaveholders treated enslaved Africans as property they intended to sell at the end of the voyage. Hunger could weaken a captive and make them less valuable to buyers, so slaveholders feared losing money when people refused to eat. The correct choice is that a person weakened by hunger could be sold for less money.

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