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Originally posted by Fourty2Tribes:


Are these not two types of slave ships? One with less people, less provisions and less weight for a longer journey and another with more people and more weight for a shorter journey else you might sink.

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No, becasue too much weight is not the only reason a boat may sink

readable links


https://books.google.com/books/about/Slave_Ships_and_Slaving.html?id=9dwJB-iKPXsC

Slave Ships and Slaving
George Francis Dow
Courier Corporation, 1927

Hardcover used on Amazon for $5 - $8

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0870331124/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used&sr=&qid=


http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0521679664/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all


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Source
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Voyage Pittoresque dans le Bresil. Traduit de l'Allemand (Paris, 1835; also published in same year in German). Reprinted in Viagem Pitoresca Através do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 1972), and in color from original water colors, in Viagem Pitoresca Através do Brasil (Editora Itatiaia Limitada, Editora da Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1989) [NOTE: both 1835 French and German editions were published in black/white].

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