$"..$I would have jumped over the side, but I could not; and besides, the crew used to watch us very closely who were not chained down to the derke lest we should letp into the water, and $\text{'}.$ have seen some of these poor African prisoners most severely cut, for attempting to do so$,$ and hourly whipped for not eating. This indeed was often the case with myself.

In a little time after, amongst the poor chained men, I found some of my own nation, which in a small degree gave ease to my mind: I inquired of these what was to be done with us$?$ They gave me to understand, we were to be carried to these White people's country to work for them."

This quote from the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano refers to the portion of the slave voyage known as Blank $1$ Like many enslaved Africans, Equiano spent years working the fields of the Carolinas, where one of the primary crops was Blank $2.$