The source document was written in 1789, it tells the story of a young man who was captured and sold among African masters and eventually being sold to white men and sent off to the coast. The narrative is very vivid in explanation and he gives his experience, of the horror he saw on board. Equiano describes his anguish when he encountered “…a multitude of black people of every description chained together every one of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow…” The source also includes examples of dehumanization; they were chained, whipped, to lay in their own filth and were not seen as humans by the whites. Majority of times, primary sources such as this, are told from the a white man’s perspective, where he narrates what occurred
