Response to the slavery images and Equiano accounts

I think that the way that the white men treated the slaves on the slave ships was horrible, how they stacked them up on the bottom decks and chained them up all together. Equiano described how "...the air became unfit for respiration." I couldn't imagine being stuck on ships for weeks or months at a time (if you even lasted that long)with the feeling of suffocation because the air quality was so bad. I also, thought that it was interesting when Equiano first entered onto the ship the white men persuaded him that he "...lived in a world of bad spirits." I wondered why they would try and convince them that they lived in the "bad world" when all the white men did anyways was torture them.