What is the definition of slavery to you? What does it mean to work till your last breath? By definition a slave is property of another human being, which they have to obey to their every order. Someone who has been forced, beat, owned throughout their life or even worse until they die. In 1750 a man named Gottlieb Mittelberger served as a indentured slave. An indentured servant is when one human being owns another human being but the person that is owned can own property but could not engage in trade. At times of marriage the servant(s) required the master 's permission. Runaway servants were hunted down and punished and beat for their "wrongful" actions (Tindall, Shi 116). Many servants died because of over excessive work, out in the fields.
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Throughout the passage, the servants had to deal with many life threating things such as, starvation, sickness, or even flogged to death. Many of the servants on board suffered from diseases due to many of them vomiting and rolling around in their own waste (Mittleberger, 1). Most of the time the servants were feed rotten or expired foods which caused most of the vomiting. However, despite all these hardships warm food was given out to the servants 3 times a week. Sometimes if they were lucky the voyage would only last 8 days from Holland to England instead of 2 weeks, and that was if they had good wind (Mittleberger, 1). Mittleberger expectation of the journey was a fearful one, he was transported on a ship as well as other indentured servants, they were all being transported to another state for their services. As soon as Mittleberger got on board he quickly assumed that this journey wouldn 't last any longer then 8 to 9 days. He was wrong, when he found out the journey was going to take roughly 2 weeks he was devastated, on top of that during the voyage on the ship there was misery, stench, fumes, horror, vomiting, many kinds of sea sickness, fever, headache, heat, some of the slaves mouths were rotting, etc. All due to the scare amount of space and rotted food as Mittleberger …show more content…
At first glipse Equiano saw the ship at shore being filled up with cargo, this brought astonishment to him which soon turned into terror and fear. Because he was soon handled and tossed up into the ships cargo space with the rest of the slaves (Equiano, 2). Which this almost immediatly created a since of fear in Equiano mind because he taught he was going to be killed. The tight space(s) and no fresh air, made the environment very smelly and a lot of slaves very uncomfortable and sick just as the ship with the indentured servants (Mittleberger, 1), (Equiano, 2). As soon as Equiano was tossed on to the ship he quickly saw the crews difference between him and the other slaves. They had longer hair and they spoke a completely different language. The voyage was a torture much like the one Mittleberger had experienced. The slaves were all put under the deck closely packed together with no fresh air and nowhere to go to the bathroom. The slaves were tightly packed together with very little room to move, the lack of room made it harder for the slaves to "take care of their business". Due to no fresh air and many slaves having to take care of business then and there, this created a horrid smell and also infectious diseases. At times, slaves would vomit the very little food they had eaten, due to the smell and the rotted foods they had so graciously devoured.
Throughout the passage, the servants had to deal with many life threating things such as, starvation, sickness, or even flogged to death. Many of the servants on board suffered from diseases due to many of them vomiting and rolling around in their own waste (Mittleberger, 1). Most of the time the servants were feed rotten or expired foods which caused most of the vomiting. However, despite all these hardships warm food was given out to the servants 3 times a week. Sometimes if they were lucky the voyage would only last 8 days from Holland to England instead of 2 weeks, and that was if they had good wind (Mittleberger, 1). Mittleberger expectation of the journey was a fearful one, he was transported on a ship as well as other indentured servants, they were all being transported to another state for their services. As soon as Mittleberger got on board he quickly assumed that this journey wouldn 't last any longer then 8 to 9 days. He was wrong, when he found out the journey was going to take roughly 2 weeks he was devastated, on top of that during the voyage on the ship there was misery, stench, fumes, horror, vomiting, many kinds of sea sickness, fever, headache, heat, some of the slaves mouths were rotting, etc. All due to the scare amount of space and rotted food as Mittleberger …show more content…
At first glipse Equiano saw the ship at shore being filled up with cargo, this brought astonishment to him which soon turned into terror and fear. Because he was soon handled and tossed up into the ships cargo space with the rest of the slaves (Equiano, 2). Which this almost immediatly created a since of fear in Equiano mind because he taught he was going to be killed. The tight space(s) and no fresh air, made the environment very smelly and a lot of slaves very uncomfortable and sick just as the ship with the indentured servants (Mittleberger, 1), (Equiano, 2). As soon as Equiano was tossed on to the ship he quickly saw the crews difference between him and the other slaves. They had longer hair and they spoke a completely different language. The voyage was a torture much like the one Mittleberger had experienced. The slaves were all put under the deck closely packed together with no fresh air and nowhere to go to the bathroom. The slaves were tightly packed together with very little room to move, the lack of room made it harder for the slaves to "take care of their business". Due to no fresh air and many slaves having to take care of business then and there, this created a horrid smell and also infectious diseases. At times, slaves would vomit the very little food they had eaten, due to the smell and the rotted foods they had so graciously devoured.