![]() ![]() I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life so that with the loathsomeness of the stench, and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste any thing. In his autobiography, the ex-slave turned writer Olaudah Equiano described his time in the belly of a slave vessel: The cargo bays where they were jailed were breeding grounds for disease and death. Slaves on any given boat spoke many different languages, which made communicating with the person next to them difficult, if not impossible. A vessel could hold as many as 400 captive bodies, packed like spoons on top of one another. During the Middle Passage, Africans would sing to each other from inside slave freighters.
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