The tumbeiros were overcrowded and carried 700 slaves on average, without the lesser condition of hygiene and comfort. The hunger, the dirt, the discomfort and the illnesses as escorbuto, vitamin deficiency, diarria, were common. The sick captives were poisoned and played to the sea. They esteem themselves that 30% of the blacks on board died during the long one travel. As soon as they arrived at the ports of Brazil, the Africans, stuned and sick also they would go for the market of slaves (when not vendidos in the proper port), or displayed in public square and auctionzed, as an object any, in a similar way that the healthy ones, however with lesser price, are clearly.

Worried about the damages, decurrent of the great number of blacks died during the trip, Nassau writes the king, sees such confirmation in the stretch the low one: … Will be of the interest of the Company to have well-taken care of greater with the blacks, since of the 6400 exported of Africa between February of 1642 and July of 1643, they had died 1525. I want to believe that the cause of this she is not another one that, maltratos in the ships, unprovided of the necessary one for travel, die these unfortunate persons for the dessaseio and pssima feeding. The prices of them vary as are well or badly nourished. After the passage, of a space for these if to remake the bodies. Of the opposite the lean ones lose its value almost entirely, or weak for the bothering of the navigation, Report of Nassau soon dies after the landing … (on Brazil. Apud Caspar Barlu, p.338). Over all, pssimas conditions where the blacks lived, were not only restricted inside of the ship, for the opposite, a time vendido, simply to its new played them owners in senzalas, supplied the surplus of foods, much work, with horria load of 15 the 18 hours per day, beyond the sexual abuse of the blacks most beautiful, for the owner, its children and administrators or captain of the weeds, as they were called, and the severe punishments.