Equiano

            Imagine that you confined for months of travel inside a room were the smell of death, disease, and sickeness is so horrid that while the ship is idle it is suffocating. Equiano says that The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable. You must live hand and hand with death, because the state of the living is a thin line from the deceased. In the space of the bathroom there was about 25 people chained together trowing up on each other. To show the evils of the white man, "One day they had taken a number of fishes; and when they had killed and satisfied themselves with as many as they thought fit, to our astonishment who were on the deck, rather than give any of them to us to eat, as we expected, they tossed the remaining fish into the sea again, although we begged and prayed for some as well we cold, but in vain; and some of my countrymen, being pressed by hunger, took an opportunity, when they thought no one saw them, of trying to get a little privately; but they were discovered, and the attempt procured them some very severe floggings". After surviving the middle passage which was greater than war Olaudah Equiano composed a brilliant case against the transatlantic slave trade, which that it was bad economically.
             Equiano starts off this assert by adrressing not just one man or group of men i9n particular because, when something is not right, you want everyone to know about it. He directs his dialect to any man that has compansion, and sentiment, and that will listen. He ensures them that those British men who fight forth the abolishment of the trans atlantic slave trade, ablong with how write against it like himself, shall not be forgotten for their insight and truth. I truly believe that the bible will tell you how to govern and live your life, and you can apply a scripture to just about anything worth wild. This is the next thing that Equiano did was to quot...

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