In the textbook Freedom on My Mind, the authors mentioned that the mortality rate for slave women and the number of child slaves is generally smaller than that of male slaves. The primary source document, "General Observations on the Management of Slaves, 1700" by James Barbot Jr. describes the difference in conditions faced by males compared to women and children. According to Barbot, women were victims of sexual violence, but had much more freedom to roam the ship than male slaves. This is probably due to Europeans' prototypical view of African women as weak and dirty, but at the same time promiscuous. They were not seen as a threat and were therefore given more freedom. Their permission to roam the ship and not spend the entire voyage in confined confinement led to their higher survival rate. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay To examine differences in mortality rates, I chose to look at Brazilian and Portuguese transports because they made up the largest number of slaves exported. They were at the peak of the export rate between the years 1800 and 1866, so I decided to use it to get a good general idea of ​​slave mortality. I knew that the number of deaths would certainly be higher for males precisely because the number of men involved in travel was generally greater than that of women, but I wondered which population had a higher mortality rate. When I read about the conditions the men faced and how they were crammed into dark, narrow spaces and practically piled on top of each other, I knew that those conditions were a central factor in deaths aboard ships. I assumed that the poor conditions and spread of disease would result in a higher death rate for men than women who have some freedom and can spend some time on deck getting fresh air and space. After researching this topic, I realized that this part of the database only allowed me to access data on the number of males and females, but did not allow me to specify whether they were adults or children. Since children, both male and female, also receive preferential treatment, I would have preferred to be able to see the statistics only for male and female adults. However, for this reason I had to consider the genders as a whole and ignore age in my research. From 1800 until the end of the slave voyages under the Brazilian/Portuguese flag in 1866, 2,024,129 slaves were transported, but only 1,825,257 of them. they survived the journey and arrived at their intended destination. This means that 198,872 slaves died during the voyage, or 9.83% of the slaves. These voyages were made up of 66.5% male slaves and 33.5% female slaves. The database showed that the mortality rate for men on these ships during this period was 11.5% while the rate for women was 7.25%. Even though the data includes male children, these data show that the conditions in which the men were held and the freedom the women were given made a fairly significant difference in the number of deaths that occurred during the voyages. This also shows that if conditions had been improved slightly, many more slaves would have been able to survive the journeys. By simply making more voyages and filling each ship more sparingly, even though it would have cost more time and money, many more slaves would have survived the voyages.