Olaudah Equiano Slave

Olaudah Equiano was a slave(formally an African prince). When he was captured, he didn't understand the reason why. The Europeans were very “new” to him. He had never seen white people before. He thought that the Whites would eat them based on the way he was treated. Ever since the beginning of the voyage, he was treated with cruelty for the littlest things. He was even beaten if he refused to eat. They only fed them enough to stay alive to be sold. Since they were all confined to one area with no way out, if one of them got sick then they all would catch the disease. Most died from these epidemics. Others around him were being treated the same way. Some of the them tried to jump ship and escape,but when they were caught they were serverely
punished. Olaudah didn't want to go through the same thing. So he didn't try anything since they were being closely watched anyway. However, he didn't know that he would be parting from the specific people on the ship. When he was told that , he thought that maybe he would be treated better eventually. He thought the torture was temporary. When the voyage was over and they got to Barbados ,Olaudah and the others were finally handed over to the merchants. Olaudah felt comfortable because he was finally surrounded by more of his kind. What he didn't know was that he and the others were to be sold all over again to new “owners”. He witnessed any kind of relationship be broken apart after each slave was sold. They were to never see each other again. He was informed that they were not to be eaten , or tortured, but to just work for the Europeans. He didn't think it would be that bad, but he spoke too soon.