Olaudah Equiano's Middle Passage

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The Middle Passage was a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. Olaudah Equiano was born around year 1745 in Guinea which is now Nigeria. He was sold into slavery while he was still a child and he worked in America and in the West Indies. He bought his own freedom and he stayed in England. He described his life as a slave in the Middle Passage as terrible. He was whipped after he refused his masters who offered him eatables. He said he wasn't hungry, because of the bad smell on the ship cause of diseases and sick slaves. He saw masters whipping slaves if they didn't obey them. And as for "The Amistad", slaves had taken revenge and started killing their white masters from the La Amistad ship. They were whipped and they suffered a lot. And were all …show more content…

They don't have much air going on the ship for there was a lot of slaves and there is no much air to breath for all of them, they were all on the low deck of the ship. The dreadful Middle Passage had caused all the slaves suffered to death.

Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in Eboa, Guinea which is now Nigeria. He was a son of a chief, and he was kidnapped into slavery at the age of 11, he was put on board in a slave ship. He described his first time when he arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship. "I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables; and, on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across I think the windlass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely"(Equiano, The Middle Passage). He said that they speak another language and he don't have any idea what was the language. During the Middle Passage, some of the

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