Which one of the following statements describes conditions experienced by those aboard ship during the Middle Passage?
A) Slave traders' lives were more at risk than the lives of the enslaved due to the high frequency of slave revolts during the journeys.
B) Slaves were immediately put to work performing the many duties required to take a sailing vessel across the Atlantic.
C) Slaves were separated by gender and locked into pens above deck, with no refuge from the weather.
D) Slaves were inhumanely crowded into very small spaces and often chained to the deck.
E) Slaves regularly exercised and were well fed so that they would arrive at markets in the New World looking strong and healthy.
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