Editing Atlantic slave trade (section)

===Seasoning camps===
Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at the [[Seasoning (slave)|seasoning camps]] found throughout the Caribbean.<ref name="dup2" /> [[Jamaica]] held one of the most notorious of these camps. [[Dysentery]] was the leading cause of death.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kiple |first=Kenneth F. |title=The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=veMLoyrX0BEC&pg=PA65 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2002 |page=65 |isbn=0-521-52470-9 |access-date=26 October 2015 |archive-date=26 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726160703/https://books.google.com/books?id=veMLoyrX0BEC&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref> Captives who could not be sold were inevitably destroyed.<ref name="FreedmensInquiry" /> Around 5 million Africans died in these camps, reducing the number of survivors to about 10&nbsp;million.<ref name="dup2" /> The purpose of seasoning camps were to obliterate the Africans' identities and culture and prepare them for enslavement. In seasoning camps, enslaved Africans learned a new language and adopted new customs. This process of seasoning slaves took about two or three years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arrival in the Americas |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/history-of-slavery/americas |website=[[National Museums Liverpool]] |access-date=20 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615225641/https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/history-of-slavery/americas |archive-date=15 June 2021}}</ref>