Oyeladun's journey to the ship

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They expected me to just walk away from my village - would they let a stranger take them away so easily? I refused so instead they first carried then dragged me until my feet and knees bled. A day's journey took us to the coast and the ocean. There was a new building - a huge wooden building. It was then I saw the white people and knew what had happened to me.

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Okechukwu's journey to the ship

Okechukwu walks a long way to a coastal fort where he sees white men and the ocean for the first time.

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Kofi's journey to the ship

Kofi finds the walk to the coastal fort very difficult. Once there he sees black people fighting black people and white fighting black.

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Kwame's journey to the ship

Unlike Oyeladun, Kwame does not resist. Kwame is chained and endures a nine-day walk to the coast where he and the other young men are loaded onto a ship.

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