Which of the following excerpts from The Interesting Narrative Of the Life of Olaudah Equiano describes how people were bought and sold upon their arrival in the Americas
Excerpt 1: "Here the merchants and planters bought us, and I was immediately hurried away... We were all examined by the physician, and one of the slaves carried off and thrown into the sea, on the account of his being sickly."
Excerpt 2: "On board this ship, I experienced such treatment as I had never before witnessed:... naked, but chained together, we were confined, shoulder to shoulder, for the space of five months, in the hold of the ship."
Excerpt 3: "When the traders had brought on board all the slaves they had purchased, they made several heats to the headland whence they took their departure."
Excerpt 4: "The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship".
Excerpt 5: "The traders now resumed their journey, and nothing passed between the merchants and the slaves worth relating on the dreary we proceeded... I now saw myself deprived of all chance of returning to my native country, or even the least glimpse of hope of gaining the shore... I now requested to know what was to become of me."
Answer: Excerpt 1 provides a description of how people were bought and sold upon their arrival in the Americas.