Part C
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When I recovered a little I found some black people about me, who I believed were some of those who brought me on board, and had been receiving their pay; they talked to me in order to cheer me, but all in vain. I asked them if we were not to be eaten by those white men with horrible looks, red faces, and loose hair. They told me I was not; and one of the crew brought me a small portion of spirituous liquor in a wine glass; but, being afraid of him, I would not take it out of his hand. One of the blacks therefore took it from him and gave it to me, and I took a little down my palate, which, instead of reviving me, as they thought it would, threw me into the greatest consternation at the strange feeling it produced, having never tasted any such liquor before. Soon after this, the blacks who brought me on board went off, and left me abandoned to despair.
What role do you think the black people on the slave ship had that Equiano refers to in this excerpt?
African slave traders were the black people who had taken Equiano aboard the slave ship. They'd abduct people from villages and transport them to European trading outposts along the coast. When a slave ship anchored off these coasts, the captured and enslaved men, women, and children were sold for a high price to the European slave ship owners.

Equiano was transported aboard the slave ship by black African slave traffickers. People from villages would be captured and kidnapped and brought to the European trading stations along the shore.

In terms of trade volume, the largest transatlantic slave traders were Portugal, Britain, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Denmark. On the African coast, a few had erected outposts where they bought slaves from the local African chiefs. Equiano was born in what is now Nigeria, and at the age of 11, he was sold into slavery. He spent eight years around the world as a slave to a British Royal Navy officer, who gave him the new name Gustavus Vassa, following stints in Barbados and Virginia.

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