Professor Marcus Rediker from the University of Pittsburg and author of 'The Slave Ship: A Human History', gives a fascinating talk on the horrors and realities of life and death on a transatlantic slave ship.
You might like to browse the following web pages while listening to the floating dungeon audio download.
'A Liverpool Slave Ship', William Jackson
Log book of the slave ship, Unity
Slaves' Stories: Follow four Africans as they are kidnapped and taken into slavery
BBC feature on James Stanfield
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on John Newton