Now imagine being the cargo on a slave ship, which had similar if not worse conditions, but you're shackled by hands and/or feet and you can't even move for mon

Now imagine being the cargo on a slave ship, which had similar if not worse conditions, but you're shackled by hands and/or feet and you can't even move for months on end. https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/large106661.html https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/large106661.html The diagram above shows how they were supposed to be packed: as the text explains, the ship actually had twice as many, so they were fitted in lying on their sides or double-stacked. The "flux" mentioned in the text is dysentery (bloody diarrhea), which coated the decks they slept on.