 | Olaudah Equiano - 1837 - 312 pages
...soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life : so that, with the loathsomeness...not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste any thing. I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me ; but soon, to my grief, two of the... | |
 | 1878 - 626 pages
...soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life; so that, with the loathsomeness...eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything. 1 now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me ; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 pages
...soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness...not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste any thing. I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the... | |
 | Abu Shardow Abarry - 1996 - 852 pages
...soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness...not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste any thing. I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the... | |
 | Rafia Zafar - 1997 - 270 pages
...initial and horrible incarceration on a slave ship, "I was soon put down under the decks, and there received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had...to taste anything I now wished for the last friend, death,"17 the reader comes about as close to experiencing the visceral degradation that was slavery... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - 1997 - 128 pages
...soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that with the loathsomeness...wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables; and, on my refusing to eat, one of... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - 1997 - 608 pages
...soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness...not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste any thing. I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the... | |
 | Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - 1999 - 554 pages
...soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life; so that with the loathsomeness...so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had the least desire to taste anything. I now wished for the last friend, Death, to relieve me. ... I had... | |
 | Scott Christianson - 1998 - 422 pages
...experienced in my life; so that, with the loathesomeness of the stench, and crying together, I became sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had the least desire to taste anything."150 Some captives passed out, or gagged and vomited in the suffocating... | |
 | Ian Kenneth Steele, Nancy Lee Rhoden - 1999 - 358 pages
...a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathesomeness of the stench, and crying together, I became so sick...not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything."3 A slave ship usually carried up to four hundred captives, chained together in the hold... | |
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I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that with the loathsomeness of the stench and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor... 
