LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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He was too weak to survive below deck
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He was young and would have been crushed
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The sailors knew the escape was impossible
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why does the ship’s crew keep Equiano on deck most of the time? The ship’s crew keeps Equiano on deck most of the time because the atmosphere below the deck makes him sick the crew wants him on the deck so that he can get some fresh air; and since Equiano is no threat to the crew, he is allowed to be on deck.
Detailed explanation-2: -He is allowed on deck to help keep him healthy, and he would not be considered a risk since he is so young. How does the crew’s disposal of their leftover fish show their cruelty? They do not want the slaves to be healthy. The crew wants to keep them weak, so they will not overpower them.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was Equiano’s response when he is taken on the deck of the ship? He saw all the people chained together and the looks of sorrow on their faces and he fainted. How many slaves are “packed” into the lower deck of ships? When someone beat a drum buyers rush to the location of the slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -Olaudah Equiano vividly recounts the shock and isolation that he felt during the Middle Passage to Barbados and his fear that the European slavers would eat him.
Detailed explanation-5: -An enslaved man who bought his freedom and wrote compellingly about his experiences, Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an extraordinary man who became a prominent figure associated with the campaign to abolish the slave trade. Equiano was born in what is now Nigeria and sold into slavery aged 11.