I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation [greeting] in my nostrils as I had never experienced
in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness [horribleness] of the stench and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat. I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables [food]; and on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across I think the windlass [a part of the ship], and tied my feet, while the other flogged [beaten or whipped] me severely. What most accurately describes the narrator’s circumstance?
He is a passenger on the Middle Passage, a ship that carries enslaved people from West Africa to the Americas.
He is a slave trader who is hungry, sick, and has trouble breathing on a ship.
He is an enslaved person on a ship who wishes to die rather than endure the inhumane conditions he faces.
He is a one of many prisoners on the Middle Passage, a trade route from West Africa to Spain.
Because the American government saw them as Japanese people over in japan who wanted to destroy America. They put them in camps so they could contain them before they could start any destruction, which was not true.
