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Equiano During The Slave Trade

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In the narrative of Equiano during the slave trade, we learned that slave were transported across the Atlantic in the most hellish conditions imaginable; they were taken from their homes and sold to merchants. The merchants then introduced them to the life of forced labor and a disease ridden environment. Slaves were tied together and beating when put on the ship, and many hungry people underneath the deck of the ship. The merchant behavior towards the slaves was rapacious, violent, and immoral. People die of hungrier while sailing from one place to another. According to Equiano, two white men offered him to eat, and when he refused to, one of them held by his hand and laid him across the windlass, and tied his feet, while the other whipped

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