Slavery

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impossibility when looked at by the slaves’ point of view. During the times of slaves, the ships and such were not as advanced as they are now. They used wind and oars to power the boats. In addition, these boats were not being produced at a high rate. The point being the ships were so over crowded that it seemed pointless to ship slaves overseas. The slaves were put in these ships and packed into rooms that were not made to accommodate that many people. Equiano writes, "The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely enough room to turn himself, almost suffocated us" (p.56). This was how the slaves were kept when they were put under the deck. Enormous amounts of people packed into one small space. In this situation, one must think about the possible outcomes. If there are a lot of people, literally on top have on another, outbreak of disease will eventually occur- and of course it ...

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beaten. Whipping was very popular and extremely painful. This was the way that the slave owners/masters showed their power. They had to keep the slaves in fear and by beating them it was successful. The whipping was not only bad, but the overall savagism was also taking a toll. The masters really did not care at all for the slaves as a group of people. For example, on one such account, Equiano explains how the masters on board the ship caught a bug shark. In stead of giving some of the shark to the starving slaves, they cut the tail off and threw it back. The slaves at the time could definitely use the nutrition. After all, they were extremely malnourished, " we had only ...

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