How did Equiano feel about slavery? Use at least 3 vivid sensory words he did to describe his situation. Happily perhaps for myself, I was soon reduced so low here thatit was thought necessary to keep me almost always on deck... Oneday they had taken a number of fishes; and when they had killedand satisfied themselves with as many as they thought fit, to ourastonishment who were on the deck, rather than give any of themto us to eat as we expected, they tossed the remaining fish into thesea again, although we begged and prayed for some as well as wecould, but in vain; and some of my countrymen, being pressed byhunger, took an opportunity, when they thought no one saw them,of trying to get a little privately; but they were discovered, and theattempt procured them some very severe floggings.One day, when we had a smooth sea and moderate wind, twoof my wearied countrymen who were chained together (I wasnear them at the time), preferring death to such a life of misery,somehow made through the nettings and jumped into the sea:immediately another quite dejected fellow, who, on account ofhis illness, was suffered to be out of irons, also followed theirexample.... Two of the wretches were drowned, but they got theother, and afterwards flogged him unmercifully for thus attemptingto prefer death to slavery. In this manner we continued to under-go more hardships than I can now relate, hardships which areinseparable from this accursed trade.ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICATO AMERICAPinilis WheatleyTwas mercy brought me from my l'agan land,Taught my benighted soul to understandThat there's a God, that there's a Savior too:Once I redemption neither sought nor knew,Some view our sable race with scornful eye,Their color is a diabolic die."Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train. Whent Olaudah Equiano was a boy, Je and his sister were captured byBritish slave traders and laken front their houre in Bentin in WestAfrica.He spent several years as the shirte of n British naval officer, who revignedhts shne Custavus Vassn. Whien he ztas about 21, his mer allowed himto buy his freestom. In this brief excerpt from The Interesting Narrativeof the Life of Olaudah Equiano, le describes his experiences as an11-mar-old boy during the Middle Passage, the terrible savage across theAtlantie Ocran abxura n slave shup,At last, when the ship we were in had got in all her cargo, theymade ready with many fearful noises, and we were all put underdeck, se that we could not see how they managed the vessel. Butthis disappointment was the least of my sorrow. The stench of thehold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome, thatit was dangerous to remain there tor any time, and some of us hadbeen permitted to stay on the deck for the fresh air, bul now thatthe whole ship's cargo were confined together it became absolutelypestilential. The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate.added to the number in the ship, which was so crowsled that eachhad scareely room to turn himself, alrnosl suffecated us. Thesproduced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfitfor respiration, fram a variety at loathsome smella and brought ona sickness arung, the slav es, of whis h mars lied. The shricksof the women, and the groans of the dy ing, rendered the whole ascene af hernor almust incanicis abs

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How did Equiano feel about slavery? Use at least 3 vivid sensory words he did to describe his situation. Happily perhaps for myself, I was soon reduced so low here thatit was thought necessary to keep me almost always on deck... Oneday they had taken a number of fishes; and when they had killedand satisfied themselves with as many as they thought fit, to ourastonishment who were on the deck, rather than give any of themto us to eat as we expected, they tossed the remaining fish into thesea again, although we begged and prayed for some as well as wecould, but in vain; and some of my countrymen, being pressed byhunger, took an opportunity, when they thought no one saw them,of trying to get a little privately; but they were discovered, and theattempt procured them some very severe floggings.One day, when we had a smooth sea and moderate wind, twoof my wearied countrymen who were chained together (I wasnear them at the time), preferring death to such a life of misery,somehow made through the nettings and jumped into the sea:immediately another quite dejected fellow, who, on account ofhis illness, was suffered to be out of irons, also followed theirexample.... Two of the wretches were drowned, but they got theother, and afterwards flogged him unmercifully for thus attemptingto prefer death to slavery. In this manner we continued to under-go more hardships than I can now relate, hardships which areinseparable from this accursed trade.ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICATO AMERICAPinilis WheatleyTwas mercy brought me from my l'agan land,Taught my benighted soul to understandThat there's a God, that there's a Savior too:Once I redemption neither sought nor knew,Some view our sable race with scornful eye,Their color is a diabolic die.&#34;Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train. Whent Olaudah Equiano was a boy, Je and his sister were captured byBritish slave traders and laken front their houre in Bentin in WestAfrica.He spent several years as the shirte of n British naval officer, who revignedhts shne Custavus Vassn. Whien he ztas about 21, his mer allowed himto buy his freestom. In this brief excerpt from The Interesting Narrativeof the Life of Olaudah Equiano, le describes his experiences as an11-mar-old boy during the Middle Passage, the terrible savage across theAtlantie Ocran abxura n slave shup,At last, when the ship we were in had got in all her cargo, theymade ready with many fearful noises, and we were all put underdeck, se that we could not see how they managed the vessel. Butthis disappointment was the least of my sorrow. The stench of thehold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome, thatit was dangerous to remain there tor any time, and some of us hadbeen permitted to stay on the deck for the fresh air, bul now thatthe whole ship's cargo were confined together it became absolutelypestilential. The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate.added to the number in the ship, which was so crowsled that eachhad scareely room to turn himself, alrnosl suffecated us. Thesproduced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfitfor respiration, fram a variety at loathsome smella and brought ona sickness arung, the slav es, of whis h mars lied. The shricksof the women, and the groans of the dy ing, rendered the whole ascene af hernor almust incanicis abs

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Olaudah Equiano was an abolitionist, writer, and formerly enslaved person known for his…