From the reading of the passage, I can say that there was massive cruelty in all of this slave trade business. There wasn't any type of freedom or anything for the slaves, just sickness and suffering. The crews of slave ships took drastic measures to ensure the maximum profits from the business of transporting human cargoes. They did things like forcing slaves to eat by tying them up and hurting the ones that tried to escape the ship. However, there were many slave deaths that occurred during the first trips of bringing slaves over seas, but crews tried to decrease slave deaths with them still being in captivity. Basically, the crews did whatever they could to ensure that the slaves could be sold for money to various other places.
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