... midwife, two nurses for the hospital, four (one of them blind) for the new negroes, two for the children in the day nursery, and one for the suckling babies of the women in the gangs. The latter comprised ... bearingburdens. Many of the slaves fell exhausted on the paths and were cut out of the coffles to die. The survivorswere sorted by the purchasers on the coast into the fit and the unfit, the latter to ... Slave Coasts, the Oil Rivers as the Niger Delta was then called, Cameroon, Gaboon and Loango. The swarm of their ships was particularly greatin the Gulf of Guinea upon whose shores the vast fan-shaped...