Chapter 2
Describes the loathsomeness of the stench, the shrieks of the women, the groans of the dying, and his fainting on deck at the sight of the furnace and the white men.
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Equiano's harrowing description of boarding the slave ship at the African coast, the terror of the white crew, and conditions of the Middle Passage; one of the most anthologized first-person accounts of the transatlantic trade.
Chapter 2
Account of two chained countrymen who jumped overboard preferring death to slavery.
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