"DAMNED PLAGUE SHIPS and SWIMMING COFFINS"

The article focuses on the permit of local ships to charter for mass expeditions under the Redemption system, a most sordid business. The emigrants who could not pay for passage will be carried without prepayment but on the arrival at American port, they will be auctioned off as bond servants. Further, before they boarded in the ship, the travelers were given a paper to sign in case of death at sea in which the surviving redemptioners were work out the time of those who had died redemptioners.