American Merchant Ships And Sailors
American Merchant Ships And Sailors
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Not even a waistcloth can be permitted among slaves on board ship, since clothing even so slight would breed disease. To ward off death, ever at work on a slave ship, I ordered that at daylight the negroes should b§ taken in squads of twenty or n)ore, and given a s^l^r Digitized by VjOOQ IC Ships and Sailors 1 1 7 water bath by the hose-pipe of the pumps. This brought renewed life after their fearful nights on the slave deck.
No one who has never seen a slave deck can form an idea of its horror...s. Imagine a deck about 20 feet wide, and perhaps 120 feet long, and 5 feet high.
Ims^ne this to be the place of abode and sleep during long, hot, healthless nights of 720 human beings I At sundown, when they were carried below, trained slaves received the poor wretches one by one, and laying each creature on his side in the wings, packed the next against him, and the next, and the next, ^nd so on, till like so many spoons packed away they fitted into each other a living mass. Just as they were packed so must they re- main, for the pressure prevented any movement or the turning of hand or foot, until the next morning, when from their terrible night of horror they were brought on deck once more, weak and worn and sick." Then, after all had come up and been splashed with salt water from the pumps, men went below to bring up the dead.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Not even a waistcloth can be permitted among slaves on board ship, since clothing even so slight would breed disease. To ward off death, ever at work on a slave ship, I ordered that at daylight the negroes should b§ taken in squads of twenty or n)ore, and given a s^l^r Digitized by VjOOQ IC Ships and Sailors 1 1 7 water bath by the hose-pipe of the pumps. This brought renewed life after their fearful nights on the slave deck.
No one who has never seen a slave deck can form an idea of its horror...s. Imagine a deck about 20 feet wide, and perhaps 120 feet long, and 5 feet high.
Ims^ne this to be the place of abode and sleep during long, hot, healthless nights of 720 human beings I At sundown, when they were carried below, trained slaves received the poor wretches one by one, and laying each creature on his side in the wings, packed the next against him, and the next, and the next, ^nd so on, till like so many spoons packed away they fitted into each other a living mass. Just as they were packed so must they re- main, for the pressure prevented any movement or the turning of hand or foot, until the next morning, when from their terrible night of horror they were brought on deck once more, weak and worn and sick." Then, after all had come up and been splashed with salt water from the pumps, men went below to bring up the dead.
What to read after American Merchant Ships And Sailors?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. [from Old Catalog] to read onlineMoreLess
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