... frequently half of the white crew also died during the voyage. 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. The tumult they had heard was the frenzy of those suffocating wretches in the last stages of fury and desperation, struggling to ... extricate themselves. Men strangled those next them, and women drove nails into each other's ... , imprisoned within the ship, thinks she is hearing the beating of a drum. In reality, as Jesse sugge...

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