“The height, sometimes, between decks, was only eighteen in…
“The height, sometimes, between decks, was only eighteen inches; so that the unfortunate human beings could not turn around, or even on their sides, the elevation being less than the breadth of their shoulders; and here they are usually chained to the decks by the neck and legs. In such a place the sense of misery and suffocation is so great, that the Negroes… are driven to frenzy.” -Robert Walsh, 1831 Voyages, such as that described in the excerpt, increased to North America as a result of the Stono Rebellion c. Bacon’s Rebellion Leisler’s Rebellion d. the Dominion of New England