myPerspectives English Language Arts
myPerspectives English Language Arts
1st Edition
Savvas Learning Co
ISBN: 9780133338805
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Page 97: Comprehension Check

Exercise 1
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Equiano says that the captives suffer from horrible smells, no light, extreme closeness to the point of almost suffocation, extreme heat, chains, unclean areas and tubs, and no food (the captures even threw fish back into the ocean instead of feeding them) during the passage across the Atlantic Ocean.
Exercise 2
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Equiano envies those who die along the way because those in the water were atleast free which he did not have and his state was extremely painful.
Exercise 3
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1. throwing fish back into the ocean rather than feeding them to the captives.
2. the captures flogged a captive for wanting to die rather than be with them.
Exercise 4
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The captives wanted to die rather than be on that ship with the white people and become slaves.
Exercise 5
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When the ship reaches Barbados the captives were put into groups and were examined by the white men. They were then asked to jump over the boat and head towards the land. The captives thought they would be eaten by the white men. Then they were pent up like sheep and sold.
Exercise 6
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Captives taken from homeland, put in fully packed ships, taken across the Atlantic ocean, abused and horribly mistreated, make it to land (some of them), are told to jump over towards land, and are then sold to merchants.
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