Highlight the central idea in pink and supporting

details in yellow.

Their complexions too, differing so much

from ours, their long hair and the language

they spoke (which was very different from

any I had ever heard) united to confirm in me

this belief. Indeed such were the horrors of

my views and fears at the moment that, if ten

thousand worlds had been my own, I would

have freely parted with them all to have

exchanged my condition with that of the

meanest slave in my own country. When I

looked round the ship too and saw a large

furnace or copper boiling and a multitude of

black people of every description chained

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Hunter

6 September, 08:52

Highlight the central idea in pink and supporting

details in yellow.

Their complexions too, differing so much

from ours, their long hair and the language

they spoke (which was very different from

any I had ever heard) united to confirm in me

this belief. Indeed such were the horrors of

my views and fears at the moment that, if ten

thousand worlds had been my own, I would

have freely parted with them all to have

exchanged my condition with that of the

meanest slave in my own country. When I

looked round the ship too and saw a large

furnace or copper boiling and a multitude of

black people of every description chained

) Intro

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Neil · Answer 1

This is an account by Olaudah Equiano who was a slave but escaped and became a slave abolitionist who was very influential.

The central idea is that he recalls how he arrived from the boat and saw the different faces and when he noticed how the black peoplewere chained and how the captors looked, he knew he would suffe the same fate and fainted.

The supporting details are him wishing that he would have parted with a thousand worlds if they were his own to exchange his condition with that of the meanest slave in his own country.