So much misery condensed in so little room was more than the human imagination had ever before conceived.

Think only of six hundred persons linked together, trying to get rid of each other, crammed in a close vessel with every object that was nauseous and disgusting, diseased, and struggling with all the varieties of wretchedness.

It seemed impossible to add any thing more to human misery.
Yet shocking as this description must be felt to be by every man, the transportation had been described by several witnesses from Liverpool to be a comfortable conveyance.

Mr.Norris had painted the accommodations on board a slave-ship in the most glowing colours.

He had represented them in a manner which would have exceeded his attempts at praise of the most luxurious scenes.