Their horror may be well conceived if we think that lots of that Negroes were found, at the end of their voyage, in different stages of suffocation; lots of them were foaming at the mouth and in their last agonies; many were already dead. ... The Africans were linked in pairs or in threes by chains, and sometimes the companion was a dead body; sometimes of the three attached to the same chain, one would be dying and another already dead. ... These two works were the only two of their type in existence until the appearance of Robert Hayden's Middle Passage, first published in Phylon in 1...

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