Middle passage

Middle Passage In these two essays �gA Physician�fs View�h by Alexander Falconbridge (1788) and �gAn African Slave�fs view�h by Olaudah Equiano (1789), both of the authors talk about the life of slaves in board and their own experiences when they crossed the ocean to another contient. They refer to this as the �gMiddle Passage�h in the essay. These two essays also show some similarities as well as differences. Alexander Falconbridge is one …

…were forced to eat and when the slaves were truing to escape, the sailors would whip them to death. These two essays have illustrated the different and similar experiences these two authors. Alexander Falconbridge and Olaudah Equiano have gone through during the middle passage. In my opinion, I think that Olaudah Equiano�fs account is more believable because it is his first hand experiences and that�fs what makes him active in the antislavery movment.