Source #3
"...they are frequently stowed so close, to allow no other position than lying on their sides. Nor will the height between deck permit the indulgence of an upright posture. ... In each of the apartments are placed three or four large buckets... to which, when necessary, the Negros have recourse. It often happens that those who are placed at a distance from the buckets, in endeavoring to get to them, rumble over their companions, in consequence to them being shackled... unable to proceed and prevented from getting to the tubs, the necessities of nature are not to be resisted, ease themselves as they lie... In the morning they were dragged up and their shackles inspected. Any slaves who had died during the night ( or too sick to recover) were unchained and thrown overboard. Their bodies were quickly eaten by the sharks that followed every slave ship."
Source: Black Voyage-Eyewitness Accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Alexander Falconbridge, edited By Thomas Howard
Little Brown & Company, Boston
Source: Black Voyage-Eyewitness Accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Alexander Falconbridge, edited By Thomas Howard
Little Brown & Company, Boston