Equiano’s accounts included very graphic details of the conditions of the slave trade ship. How is Equiano’s emphasis on the smells aboard the ship important to the development of his central ideas for the piece as a whole?

1.It implies that the slaves were kept dirty so as to degrade their sense of self-worth and make enslavement easier.

2.It highlights how primitive hygienic standards, especially aboard a ship, were in the 18th century.

3.It emphasizes the inhumane conditions the slaves were forces to endure at the hands of European cruelty.

4.It suggests that sanitation on the ship was not as much a priority for the Europeans as was a profit.