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This part of the story is about a man that has been forced onto a slave ship with his whole family because someone falsely accused him of witchcraft. They said the man may have been a slave trader and got in a fight with the chief of Saltpan who made up the lie that him and his family used witchcraft. When the man got on the ship he was extremely depressed. The man would not eat anything. Because of his depression he cut his own throat luckily not killing himself but pretty close. The next night on the ship the man tried killing himself again by cutting his neck with his own fingernails. Again he did not kill himself but he still would not eat food. In about ten days the unknown man died of lack of food.  Some people thought this man was crazy others thought he made the right choice and would rather die then become a slave.

There is a lot of evidence of turmoil and resistance in this passage. To show how much this man doesn’t want to become a slave he tries killing himself and soon succeeds. This was a terrible situation that proves slaves didn’t just sit there and not do anything. They stood up for what they believe in.  You see turmoil in this story when they man is trying to commit suicide and is not eating proving how bad slavery would be.

I thought that the slaves on these ships were just sitting there not doing anything and not standing up for themselves. But here that is obviously not true. I also can't believe you can become a slave after someone gets you in trouble for something that is not true. But I was also shocked that the crew cared so much about this individual. I thought if a slave tried committing suicide they would just throw his body out of the ship but they actually tried preventing it and tried to help him.

http://americancivilwarphotographs.blogspot.com/2012/06/african-slave-ships.html

African Slave Ships

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