The conditions below the deck of the slave ship can be best described as
The adjective, 'Melancholy' is used to describe a state of sadness and sorrow.
This word is befitting for the conditions that the slaves found themselves in when they were stuffed below the decks of ships en route to Europe and the Americas for labor.
They were so jampacked that they found it difficult to stretch their legs or even stand up. They lacked good food to eat during their long journies.
Most of them died during the journey and were thrown overboard to be fed on by the sharks in the sea.
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