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Slavery Visual Discovery Directions: Examine the following images very closely, and answer the questions that follow. Be sure to analyze the each part of the image. (Surroundings, facial expressions, actions of the people in the image.)
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Image 2 Primary Source “Olaudah was taken down into the darkness of the lower deck, where the slaves were manacled and shackled. He was made to lie wedged in such close quarters that he "had scarcely room to turn himself". His living space was about three square feet, hardly more than that of a corpse in its coffin. The air was noxious (very unpleasant, almost poisonous); the constant rubbing of his chains raised sores on his wrists and ankles.” As the ship set sail, the full enormity of what was happening to him struck home, as it must have done to millions of other Africans. Because of bad weather, the slaves stayed locked below in their chains for days at a time. The heat was suffocating, the stench unbearable. Covered in sweat, vomit, and blood, the packed slaves created a foul odor which rose through the gratings of the upper deck in a loathsome mist. The "necessary tubs" full of excrement "almost suffocated us", recalled Olaudah. The shrieks of terrified slaves, conscious of the troubled spirits of the dead, mingled with the groans of the dying. It was rare for a slave transport across the Atlantic not to give plenty of sustenance to the sharks swimming nearby.
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Images: 4, 5, and 6 The following images will be apart of the same questions. Examine the images very carefully so that you can better support your argument.
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