Equiano's Brutality In The Middle Passage

Equiano retells the transition from the familial conditions of slavery from Africa to the brutalities of the slave ships during the Middle Passage, and not only did he incite sympathy from his audience, he uses the British’s own beliefs to demonstrate his achievement to moral superiority. Equiano’s description of the brutality in the Middle Passage portrayed the severe reality of the slave trade to his once blind eyed audience as it displays true feelings of terror, separation, and dread. Equiano elaborates about the “loathsomeness of the stench” below the ship’s deck that made him “become so sick and low that he was not able to eat,” and when he refused to eat the food offered to him by the crew members, they tied him down by his hands and