The depictions of slavery help us understand it in the sense that:
B. They emphasize the horrible treatment of slaves.
Explanation:
The two depictions we are analyzing here were made centuries apart, yet they both portray the cruelty with which Africans were treated by Europeans once they were captured and taken. Both passages focus on the horrors they suffered, the inhuman treatment they received. They were beaten and underfed. They were ripped apart from their homes and families to either die on their way to the coast of the African continent, or to work and die in the Americas. With that in mind, we can select letter B as the correct choice:
B. They emphasize the horrible treatment of slaves.
