Agonising and insufferable: the Atlantic Slave Trade. Source 2 Close-up. Durham University Library

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Did the 'Middle Passage' deserve its awful reputation?

A slave's description of life aboard a slave ship. Taken from Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa as written by himself, London, 1789.
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A slave's view on life aboard ship. Taken from Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789.

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