f 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. 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. Indeed, such were the horrors of my views and fears at the moment, that, if ten thousand worlds had been my own, I would have freely parted with them all to have exchanged my condition with the meanest slave in my own country. (53-54)
             Many thoughts raced through Equiano's head as he first encountered western culture. While on the slave ship traveling to Barbados, Equiano began to adapt to his new environment. Crowded on the ship with him were Africans from all parts of the continent. However, even though Equiano was with his brethren, very few of the hundred individual forced under the same circumstance could relate to him in speech. In fact, the only reason why Equiano managed to know that the white men were not planning to
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