On board Slave Ships-English * Captives on the slave ships were often of poor health from the mental and physical abuse they suffered. When taken on board, they were stripped naked and examined from head to toe, by the captain or surgeon. * The conditions on the ships were appalling. The men were packed together and secured with leg irons. There was no space and everyone was cramped, often having to crouch or lie down.
While Aminata is going down into the ship, she finds the living conditions of black people in the dark, stinking place are excessively disgusting; she describes “[their] corridor [is] nothing but a narrow footpath separating the men to [their] left and right. Piled like fish in a bucket, the men [are] stacked on three levels---one just above [her] feet, another by [her] waist and a third level by [her] neck. They [can] not lift their heads more than a foot off the wet, wooden slabs” (Hill 50). Aminata is
All humans, no matter which skin color, have been enslaved one time or another in their history. People have been enslaved because of what other human beings believe what is good enough or not. These people have suffered for many years just because of skin color and basically just their appearance on the outside. In the autobiographies by Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano, “My Bondage and My Freedom,” and “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,” Both writers vividly present to the reader the devastation and humiliation of slavery. Douglass and Equiano were both Africans and slaves; however, they lived very different lives.
They had to use their tins and duck behind the sheds in the trenches. Not only was this incredibly unhygienic and caused many diseases among the soldiers, but they were also dodging bullets. The enemy would shot them as they went to the toilet and because they were pre-occupied they could not defend themselves. The toilets were a grim place to be, cans of overflowing sewage, undetectable bullets and often the bodies of men who had died in the act. Another terrible problem was the rats.
She tells how there were government houses, libraries, departments of Treasury, Banks that were owned by slave traders and the Mill Reef Club that “ declared itself completely private, in order to keep out the natives unless they were servants, on each corner. All that once was Antigua are the reasons why she hates the English. She calls them “pigs that behaved in a bad way”. She is upset because of the mistreatment that her and her people faced from the English, describing the personal experiences natives have had with the racist “so called doctors” that
To prevent enemy soldiers from returning to their troops, the Japanese held prisoners of war in horrible camps throughout Japan, forced them to work in horrendous conditions, and treated them inhumanely. The living conditions the prisoners had to endure on the way to the camps was truly awful. When transported, the men were crammed into rusty old freighters and spent several nights in these “hell ships” (“The POW Camps”). The men on the ships had no room to move, were ill with dysentery and had very little food. Sometimes they were transported from one “hell ship” to another on their journeys to work camps.
The second stage of the Triangular Trade (the Middle Passage) involved shipping African slaves to the colonies. The duration of the journey varied from one to six months depending on weather conditions. Could you imagine being on a ship for this length of time? Conditions on the ships were horrendous; disease and overcrowded conditions were common. Many Africans refused to eat or jumped overboard, committing suicide.
This thought is also, seen through the strategic naming of the slave ships name; the Republic. It seems that the boat faces many physical hardships with weather and course and is wrecked. With a name that means, a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens, ironically it is everything but. Neither the crew nor “cargo” has any power, thus far in the novel. Also in the text, Captain Ebenezer Falcon says that “the mind is made for murder,” which foreshadows, while showing more Buddhist traces, that man is subconsciously bad natured.
I could see I there were scientific facts or data that would confirm that statement to be true and that by running the water it prevented germs but nothing has been issued to the media outlets such as the TV news stations with this type of comment to my knowledge. If this was so all companies in the fast food industry, hospitality and more would have adopted that way of preventing germs. Starbucks defended themselves by saying, the running taps were needed to meet health standards. I would say they were just wasting water and had not clear understanding of what the consequences would be once the news got out into the public. This is very unfortunate when most countries in Africa do not have clean running water and here Starbucks is washing it down the drain without thought.
They had a no serving of alcohol in the park and this caused some alarm, because they was in a country where wine is customarily served with lunch and dinner. They hastily made the necessary changes to this policy. There was another surprise or failure that arose and that was concerning breakfast. They was informed that Europeans did not do breakfast so they had downsized the restaurant to a seating capacity of 350. Surprisingly everyone had showed up for breakfast which was over two thousand people they tried to serve.