Equiano Response

The African's didn't really know what they were getting dragged into when they were being forced on the ships to be taken to the New World and sold into slavery. They could't understand what the English were saying because they spoke a completely different and new language that they had never heard before. They were treated so poorly and with so much disrespect. For example, they were shoved into tiny compartments with multiple other Africans and they had no choice but to sit and wait. They were given little to no food in all the days they were on the ship. Many of the African's died before they even reached land to be sold as slaves because of poor nutrition. Other didn't survive because of the disgusting smell created by those African's who had already perished. The English didn't care. They didn't really think of them as people, but more like property. They kind of thought of them as just there's to throw around and force to do tasks that they didn't want to complete themselves. It is hard to understand how any one human being could possibly do something like that to another and it is even more saddening and hard to understand that something like this could still be going on today.