I remember an instance or two wherein this happened. This however happens rarely, but when it does a famine is produced by it. Sometimes we are visited by locusts, which come in large clouds so as to darken the air and destroy our harvest. They use no beasts or husbandry, and their only instruments are hoes, axes, shovels, and beaks, or pointed iron to dig with. Our tillage is exercised in a large plain or common, some hours walk from our dwellings, and all the neighbors resort thither in a body.
In what ways does Equiano contrast slavery within Africa with the sort of slavery he encountered in the western hemisphere? What sufferings does he describe on the slave ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean? In what ways were slaves cheated by whites? His Narrative, written in English in 1789, immediately became a sensation, and has remained a classic source for our knowledge about the European slave trade from the point of view of the slave. Born in Benin in the late 18th century, Equiano was enslaved as a young boy and passed through a variety of experiences, many of them horrible but he managed to acquire enough learning and independence to become a major voice advocating an end to slavery.
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