Why does Equiano include details like these in his narrative? He wants slavers to stop separating loved ones during auctions.
He wants readers to make more effort to protect children.
He wants to call for reforms of terrible ship conditions.
He wants to cause alarm about the horror of the slave ship holds

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.