A. D. 1788. 145 



India goods,' among which guns and other articles of wrought iron, cop- 

 per, and brafs, gun-powder and balls, rum and other fpirirs, woollen, 

 cotton, and linen, goods, conftitute the principal articles. 



When the Haves are received onboard the vellels, the men are chain- 

 ed, two and two together, the right ancle of the one being faftened to 

 the left ancle of the other, but the women and children are not chained. 

 The proportion of Haves taken onboard was at this time from two to 

 three for every tun of the vefTels burthen ; about two thirds of the cargo 

 being males, and their ages not under fixteen nor above thirty, if they 

 could be fo obtained. The tweendecks is fitted up for their reception 

 with bulkheads (or partitions) dividing it into rooms, the firft of which^ 

 in a fhip, reaches from the head to the fore part of the main hatch, and 

 is allotted to the men flaves : the fecond bulkhead, abaft the main maft 

 and the pumps, inclofes a fhort room for the boys : the third, which is 

 placed abaft the mizen maft, and is common to all fliips, divides the 

 women, who are before it, from the girls, who are in the cabin*. A 

 platform, or flielf, of the breadth of about fix feet is moreover ranged 

 along each fide at the mid height between the upper and the lower deck, 

 on which a fecond tire of flaves is laid. None of the flaves, who are 

 flowed upon, or under, the platform, except fmall children, can vary 

 their pofition fo far as to fit up, unlefs the fliip has a very extraordinary 

 height between the decks f. The whole of the apartments allotted for 

 the flaves are generally planed fmooth, and painted. And it was affert- 

 ed, that very great improvements had been made in point of accommo- 

 dation in the flave vefTels within twenty years pafl. Every morning in 

 good weather the flaves are brought upon deck, where they are waflied 

 and fed, and afterwards made to jump about for exercife:|: : and in the 

 meantime the failors are employed in cleaning their rooms, and when 

 the weather requires it, fumigating them with the fmoke of tobacco or 

 frankincenfe. In bad weather they mufl remain almofl conftantly in . 



* In frigatc-buik fhlps the women's room reaches and in the year 1 786 (lie aflually earned G20 Jluvcs 



quite to the Itern ; and the girls with fome of the inlo Kingfton, of whom 608 fiirvived till the fale. 



fmaller boys are kept in the cabin, which is all The average height of the tweendecks in nine vcf- 



sbove the main deck, there being thus four tires fels meafnred by Captain Parrey was 5 feet 2 inches, 



of flaves in the after part of the fliip. One of them was only 4 feet 2 inches ; and 



f The fpace allowed upon the deck or platform tsen that one liad a platform, which, allowing 



for each full grown flave was 1 6 inches, for the for its own thicknefs, could be only 2 feet from 



boys 14 inches, and for the girls 12 inches. But the decks above and below it. \_Defcription of a 



they were often flowed much clofcr, fo that they fiwoe fi'tp, at the end of Wadjlronis F-Jfax on colonh' 



abfolutely lay upon onc-another. The (liip Brooks, ation. — Report on the Jlave trade, Part iii, JJ:>eet S, 



as meafured by Captain Parrey, who was fent by p. 4. — See alfo the a3 of parliament, 37 Geo. Ill, 



government to Liverpool in order to infpe£t the c. 118.] 



llave fhips, meafured 100 feet, by 25 feet 4 inches J ' The fong and dance are encouraged and 



where broadell, on the lower deck ; and the height ' promoted,' fays one evidence. Another evid- 



cif her tweendfcks was 5 feet 8 inches. Her no- ence fays, that the women and children are driv- 



ininal tunnage 297, her fuppofed tunnagc by mea- en about among one-another, and the men forced 



furement 320 tuns. By the above allowance of to jump in their chains by the operation of the 



f^ace fqr the flaves, Tne (hould have carried 482 : cat-of-nine-tails. They are alio compelled to fingk 



hut (he actually took onboard 6c 9, as Captain one of their country drums beating all the wliiie. ; 

 Parrev was told by the fiavt-merchaiits their.lelvcs. 



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