1. "Understanding Slavery Initiative: Africa before Transatlantic Enslavement." http://understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=315&Itemid=145.html

2. Death rates in middle passage: "Between 1680 and 1688, an average of 23% of the Royal African Company's human 'cargoes' died en route to the Americas." http://understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=308&Itemid=153.html

3. Death rate in the first year for field slaves was around 50%. "Death Toll from the Slave Trade." http://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports/Slavedeathtoll/slaverydeathtoll.html

4. The Project Gutenberg eBook, "A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself, "by Venture Smith http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10075/10075-h/10075-h.htm

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