Answer:
Slaves below the decks lived for months in conditions of squalor and indescribable horror
Disease spread and ill health was one of the biggest killers
Mortality rates were high
death made these conditions below the decks even worse
The slaves who had already been ill ridden were not always found immediately
Many of the living slaves could have been shackled to someone that was dead for hours and sometimes days
Explanation:
They were also beaten at most times
starved
and just mis treated in general
