You may want to look at “The Slave Ship” by Rediker.
Mostly from ship logs and sailors journals.
A grim tale of woe, but not all the usual horrors, a new category of victims.The sailors.
Most of the illnesses of the cargo were also suffered by the crew. The cargo had value, the crew replaceable.
A sick or weakened sailor is left in port.
Many of the forlorn sailors ended up with the same sick slaves in port and died together.
I have a book Matt Bracken gave me years ago that was an autobiography of a deckhand who rose to captain and equity holder of his own slave trading ship which operated way beyond the 1807 British slave trading ban
It had remarkable insight into barracoon life...savagery
From this captains perspective it was paramount to keep the cargo alive
Naturally the book is not well received now and nor is Redikers work
It’s impossible to find empirical data on slave trade, our web is now firmly in the control of our enemies
Something we need to work on btw
I read the book and it’s in one of my scores of stacks but I have it...my oldest read it too...
Can’t recall title but its best I’ve seen on the subject
Progressives simply say it’s all a lie
Yaelle I’m glad you’ve read thiose...I’m going to follow that
But beware
I was at Oak Alley plantation in south Louisiana five years ago and their bookstore had several copies that were reprints of originals and I bought them
I then ordered some online and immediately could tell they were heavily edited to paint as ugly a picture possible....
Matt do you recall title ...my memory is that of an old man with a bum ticker sadly
I can remember thanksgiving 1966 but not what I did three days ago
See Kanye as an example of the tar pit slave trade subject is