Jabrosky
Banned
I'm plotting out a story's third chapter which starts aboard a slave ship. In the previous chapter, the protagonist got knocked unconscious by a team of assassins who decided to feather their nest by selling her to slavers instead of killing her (that way they could collect both their assassin's fee and a little extra profit from the slave trade). When she wakes up she finds herself in captivity on the slave ship, and I need to know what that would look like.
There are of course numerous descriptions of trans-Atlantic slave ships during the Middle Passage period, but this ship is supposed to resemble a Greco-Roman galley rather than a post-medieval sailing ship. Where would Greco-Roman slave traders keep their human cargo? Did they have a special deck to crowd them into the way Middle Passage ships did?
There are of course numerous descriptions of trans-Atlantic slave ships during the Middle Passage period, but this ship is supposed to resemble a Greco-Roman galley rather than a post-medieval sailing ship. Where would Greco-Roman slave traders keep their human cargo? Did they have a special deck to crowd them into the way Middle Passage ships did?