To imagine what it must have been like to be chained into a space about the size of a coffin, is hard to get your mind rount. And walvin points out something, once again, that i didn't even think of. If you actually look at slave revolts as a thing, which will do in a little while. The vast majority of them happen on board ships within sight of the african coast. It's sort of the last chance for these people to get away before they're severed from their homeland.