FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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the conditions on the slave ships
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how difficult it was to learn English
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what the people who took him looked like
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what it was like to live in Africa
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Detailed explanation-1: -The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time, and some of us had been permitted to stay on the deck for the fresh air; but now that the whole ship’s cargo were confined together, it became absolutely pestilential .
Detailed explanation-2: -Enslaved as a child in Africa, he was shipped to the Caribbean as a victim of the Atlantic slave trade and sold as a slave to a Royal Navy officer. He was sold twice more but purchased his freedom in 1766. As a freedman in London, Equiano supported the British abolitionist movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -The lower deck of a slave ship was divided into separate compartments for men and women, with the men shackled together in pairs and the women left unchained but confined below. The conditions were appalling, with hundreds of people crowded together with little airflow and even less sanitation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known as “Guineamen” because the trade involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea coast in West Africa.