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 ==History== 
 The practice conditioned the African captives for their new lot in life; newly arrived African captives would have to be trained into the daily rigors that awaited them in the Americas. This training was carried out on plantations in the Caribbean, such as Jamaica.  

 Estimated mortality rates for this process vary from 7% to 50% with duration between one and four years.Kiple, K.F. The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History, p. 65.  

 Most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordeal, though slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process. Jamaica held one of the most notorious of these camps. Meltzer, Milton. Slavery: A World History. Da Capo Press, 1993. 

 The process of seasoning had a strong profit motive. For example, the average price of adult male slaves in Jamaica (1770s) was approximately 52% higher than "New Negroes" (Africans who came to a New World).Burnard, T. and Morgan, K. The Dynamics of the Slave Market and Slave Purchasing Patterns in Jamaica, 1655-1788. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 58, No. 1, New Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Jan., 2001), pp. 205-228.