Read the passage below from Olaudah Equiano's autobiography:
I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation [greeting] in my nostrils as I had
never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness [horribleness] of the stench and crying together,
I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat. now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but
soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables [food]; and on my refusing to eat, to one of them
held me fast by the hands, and laid me across I think the windlass [a part of the ship], and tied my feet, while
the other flogged [beaten or whipped] me severely.
What most accurately describes the narrator's circumstance?
He is a passenger on the Middle Passage, a ship that carries enslaved people from West Africa to the Americas.
He is a slave trader who is hungry, sick, and has trouble breathing on a ship.
He is an enslaved person on a ship who wishes to die rather than endure the inhumane conditions he faces.
He is a one of many prisoners on the Middle Passage, a trade route from West Africa to Spain.