Slaves have told how they began the voyage in trepidation, being frightened by the sight of the "white devils" who, they had heard, liked to eat Africans.

Then the long voyage commenced.

Conditions here were even more crowded than at the "factory." Slaves were generally kept below deck with no sunshine or fresh air.

They were crowded so close together that there was never any standing room and often not even sitting room.
Again, they had to be supervised closely as many tried to starve themselves to death or to jump overboard.

However, the greatest loss of slave property was due to disease, The ship's captain feared that disease would whittle away his profits, and, even more, he worried that it would attack him and his crew.