Quote on page 25: "When they put us in irons to be sent to our place of confinement in the ship, the men who fastened the irons on these mothers took the children out of their hands and threw them over the side of the ship into the water. When this was done, two of the women leaped overboard after the children--the third was already confined by a chain to another woman and could not get into the water, but in struggling to disengage herself, she broke her arm and died a few days after of a fever. One of the two women who were in the river was carried down by the weight of her irons before she could be rescued; but the other was taken up by some men in a boat and brought on board. This woman threw herself overboard one night when we were at sea."
Response: This quote shows the struggles of the mothers trying to save them and their children. The captured mothers attempt everything they can to escape their cruel, unjust turn of fate. Yet, nothing was done by the slave capturers. This quote perfectly captures how much inferior the whites thought of the blacks. The blacks scramble for freedom, but the whites hold them down. No one even cared about the deaths, only the profits.
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