fifty days aboard the slave ship
Fifty Days on Board a Slave Vessel is a remarkable narrative that informs us of the Middle Passage. ... Hill, does a good job in imprinting in our minds the wretched conditions, and horrific incidents aboard the ship. ... Hill gives us the sicknesses and illnesses; the brutality and cruelty of the overseers; the small rations of food and water; and even the mortality aboard the slave ship. ... Through research, especially from a book called the Atlantic Slave Trade by Kenneth Kipple, I learned that the study of the diseases on ship is important because it was one of the main factors that resulted in the high mortality of the Africans.