![]() ![]() ![]() Equiano, 58Įquiano's writing on the Middle Passage is the section of the work most likely to end up in anthologies for history and literature classes. The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable. This wretched situation was again aggravated by the galling of the chains, now become insupportable and the filth of the necessary tubs, into which the children often fell, and were almost suffocated. ![]() This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died, thus falling victims to the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers. ![]()
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