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2 years ago
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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.
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KIM [24]2 years ago
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Answer:

He is an enslaved person on a ship who wishes to die rather than endure the inhumane conditions he faces.

Explanation:

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