![]() While visiting the Virginia gentleman, Pascal took a liking to Equiano and purchased him as a gift for some friends in England. One day, the "kind and unknown hand of the Creator" revealed itself to Equiano in the form of a merchant ship captain named Michael Henry Pascal. He also resented that he was given new names he was called Jacob here, and had previously been called Michael - both names of which he disapproved. He wished for death, and was terrified of his owner, who had placed an iron muzzle on one of the old female slaves. ![]() Equiano watched as all of his friends were sold off to traders until he was the only one left on the plantation, miserable in his loneliness. There, they worked on a plantation for a rich old gentleman. They landed in Virginia country, which they accessed by sailing up a river. ![]() On this journey, they were treated better and had more to eat. Equiano and other slaves remained on Barbados for a few days, but were then shipped off in a sloop to North America. ![]()
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