Part B Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.
Indeed such were the horrors of my views and fears at the moment, that, if ten thousand worlds had been my own,
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 together, every one of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer
doubted of my fate; and, quite overpowered with horror and anguish, I fell motionless on the deck and fainted.
Why do you think Equiano might have preferred to be a slave in his own country?