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In most cases, pray that the outbreak wouldn't destroy all of his valuable 'cargo'. In some cases - depending on whether the disease was known to be highly infectuous - the sick were put overboard.

A little-known fact is by the way that according to the figures kept by the West Indies Company over the decades, the average percentage of the ship's crew that died during the journey was even higher than that of the slaves in the hold. In a number of cases slaves who had taken over the dead crew member's duties got their freedom on arrival as a reward, often staying on as a crew member.

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