Answer: It is describing the dreadful voyage of a group of enslaved Africans on a slave ship—more specifically the so-called middle passage voyage.
Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that this is an excerpt from Olaudah Equiano's bestseller autobiography (1789). He was a former enslaved African who was eventually able to buy his freedom and become a seaman and a merchant. In this passage he is relating the horrors he experienced and witnessed during the so-called middle passage voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. He describes the unbereable voyage aboard an overcrowded ship, the unhealthy conditions, the diseases and the deaths, as well as the screams and the groans of those that, like him, were obliged to leave their homes and work as slaves.
If it's on a house post, I'm sure it's signifying that Yoruba will offer hospitality
The social problem that The Jungle by Upton Sinclair described was B.) THE LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN CHICAGO'S STOCKYARD.
Not only in the stockyard but also in the meat packing factories.
The story is about how a family intent on pursuing their American Dream was not able to do so because they became victims of corruption, wage slavery, and oppression by the capitalists in Packingtown.
That she needs to be with hamlet and get away from her home
