In his analysis of a slave ship, in 1829, the Reverend Robert Walsh pointed out that "The space between decks was divided into two compartments 3 feet 3 inches high; the size of one was 16 feet by 18 and of the other 40 by 21; into the first were crammed the women and girls, into the second the men and boys". ... Men, women and children were crammed into every available space, denied adequate room, food or breathing space. ... Hundreds of fellow creatures of all ages and sexes, some children, some adults, some old men and women, all in a state of total nudity, would scramble out together to...

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