Reply #1: And when the slave trade was finally outlawed, they

[Warpy]

used those same ships with the same accommodations to move the starving Irish offshore. It's no mystery why they were called "coffin ships," the starving and sick stacked the way the slaves had been, minus the shackles.

Charleston, SC has a museum of one of the slave auction houses. It remains one of the spookiest places I've ever been in and I swear you can still smell the despair in that place. Books describing the "property" up for sale are on display and reveal much more about the sellers than their human animals.

If you can go to either museum, please do. We should never forget the truth of what happened to these people.

(those accommodations look plush compared to what I've seen. There was barely 18 inches between the planks the people were shackled to, 3 or four tiers of them midship.)