These figures are high and show how societies were affected in Africa. Most of the time, there were more women than men in Africa because the plantation owners wanted strong men. The idea of ​​polygamy was born from the distortion of numbers. Olaudah Equiano wrote a novel about slavery and opened the eyes of many unknowing people across the world. His book was very powerful and served to help during the abolitionist movement. He believed that the experience of the Middle Passage was completely demoralizing for Africans (Andrea 195). Referring to his experience, he wrote: "I now wished that the last friend, death, would give me relief." He changed people's minds by delving deeper and deeper into the details of the horrible things encountered during the Atlantic slave trade. He also informed readers that if slaves had to go to the toilet, they should do so while lying there. If the person above you went, their feces would seep through the boards and land underneath. As the Atlantic slave trade boomed, crew members began to take better care of the slaves, knowing that the more they brought in, the more money they would make. They didn't take care of them because they were humans, they took "care" of them because they were property and damaged property means less.