Their complexions, too, differing so much from ours, their long hair, and the language they spoke (which was very different from any I had ever heard), united to confirm me in this belief. As soon as the whites saw it, they gave a great shout, at which we were amazed; and the more so, as the vessel appeared larger by approaching nearer. I understood them, though they were from a distant part of Africa; and I thought it odd I had not seen any horses there; but afterwards, when I came to converse with different Africans, I found they had many horses amongst them, and much larger than those I then saw. Equiano tells of the "cruelty" of the Europeans and that they displayed this cruelty even toward their own people. Equiano responds with shock and horror to the conditions he describes aboard the slave ship on the Middle Passage. 0000190526 00000 n However, two of the wretches were drowned, but they got the other, and afterwards flogged him unmercifully, for thus attempting to prefer death to slavery. General history of Africa, abridged edition, v. 1: Methodology and 0000070662 00000 n I therefore wished much to be from amongst them, for I expected they would sacrifice me; but my wishes were vain for we were so quartered that it was impossible for any of us to make our escape. Nam risus ante, dapibus a molestie consequat, ultrices ac magna. 0000192597 00000 n These filled me with astonishment, which was soon converted into terror, when I was carried on board. The Middle Passage - Olaudah Equiano - Brycchan Carey 0000087103 00000 n Olaudah Equiano's "From the Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano" is written with the intent of ending the slave trade and aiding the abolitionists' movement. Buying and enslaving the people who supplied this labor ultimately became a lucrative and tragic part of the commerce in the maritime web that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Olaudah Equiano, kidnapped as a boy from his homeland in what is today Nigeria, recalls in his memoir, "I was immediately handled and tossed up to see if I were sound by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me."
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