. The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern : the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome ; the African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States. of air. Confinement inthis situation was so injurious, that he has known them to go down apparently ingood health at night, and found dead in the morning. On his last voyage heopened a stout man who so died. He found the contents of the thorax andabdomen healthy, and therefore concludes he died of suffocation in the was never among them for ten minu
. The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern : the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome ; the African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States. of air. Confinement inthis situation was so injurious, that he has known them to go down apparently ingood health at night, and found dead in the morning. On his last voyage heopened a stout man who so died. He found the contents of the thorax andabdomen healthy, and therefore concludes he died of suffocation in the was never among them for ten minutes below together, but his shirt was aswet as if dipped in water. One of his ships, the Alexander, coming out of Bonny, got aground on thebar, and was detained there six or seven days, with a great swell and heavyrain. At this time the air ports were obliged to be shut, and part of thegratings on the weather side covered: almost all the men slaves were taken illwith the flux. The last time he went down to see them, it was so hot he tookoff his shirt. More than twenty of them had then fainted, or were fainting. * The necessity of exercise for health is the reason given for compellng the slaves todance in the above manner. *• * *. © 3 o HE-t O «1 THE MIDLLE PASSAGE. 129 He got, however, several of them hauled on deck. Two or three of thesedied, and most of the rest, before they reached the West Indies. lie wasdown only about fifteen minutes, and became so ill by it that he could not getup without help, and was disabled (the dysentery seizing him also) from doingduty the rest of the passage. On board the same ship he has known two orthree instances of a dead and living slave found in the morning shackledtogether. The crowded state of the slaves, and the pulling off the shoes by the surgeons, as described above, that they might not hurt them in traversing theirrooms, are additionally mentioned by surgeons Wilson and Claxton. Theslaves are said also by Hall and Wilson to compla
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