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PART A: How is Equiano's emphasis on the smells abward the ship important to the development of his central ideas?
It highlights how primitive hygienic standards were in the 18th century,
It implies that the slaves were kept dirty so as to degrade their sense of selfworth and make enslavement easier
It suggests that sanitation on the ship was not as much a priority for the Europeans as was profit
It emphasizes the inhumane conditions the slaves were forced to endure at the hands of European cruelty.
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