Olaudah Equiano Reaction Paper

Children in the slave trade were treated very poorly. The capture, transport, and sale of these slave children affected them mentally and physically. There were also many disadvantages and advantages to owning a slave and selling slaves. Some of these documents seem to provide more reliable information than the others. Overall, slaves caused more problems than they solved and the actual slaves were permanently scarred from the experience. Due to poor treatment of the slaves, they can't find happiness in things anymore and they are always distressed about their future. For example, in the text it states, "being quite overpowered by fatigue and grief, our only relief was some sleep, which allayed our misfortune for a short time." Another example
I thought this because the narrator seemed to include a lot of detail in their scenes of what had been happening. For example, in the experience he says, "I discovered some people at a distance, on which I began to cry out for their assistance; but my cries had no other effect than to make them tie me faster and stop my mouth, and then they out me into a large sack" The narrator uses good detail here because you can picture the scene in your mind and it seems like a real scenario. The other source that seems to be a reliable source is "A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture A Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America Related by Himself" This seems to be a reliable source because the narrator gives people's exact names that he encounters. For example at the end of the story he says, "On a certain time, I and other prisoners were put on board a canoe, under our master, and rowed away to a vessel belonging to Rhode land, commanded by Captain Collingwood, and the mate, Thomas Mumford." This proves the document's reliability because he mentions the names of the people that he encountered at the end to prove his