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The main idea expressed in this passage is the existence of human suffering filled slave ships.
The parts of this passage that makes this answer most appropriate includes:
- The closeness and the heat in the ship.
- The crowded room that made turning impossible.
- The unfit air in the room for breathing
- The bad smells.
- The dying and the sick people aboard.
- The writer described the place as a place of horror.
All of these goes to show that the writer Olaudah was trying to give a description of the human suffering that was existent in the slave ships that were on their way to America.
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
Olaudah was a slave that was taken from Africa. He was a writer and also an abolitionist. He became a slave at the age of 11 after he was kidnapped in Africa.
He received little education and was able to buy his freedom back from his master later in life.
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