Summary

In “Voyage Nine: 1832,” the narrator describes the horrible way African men and women were kidnapped to be sold into slavery. He focuses on the story of Cudjo who was one of several members of a tribe sold by their own people to a slave trader. When the men and women who had been sold were chained together, some of the people of the village made such a show of emotion that the trader was angry. He finally ordered all of the people, even the elderly to be taken. The 146 members of the tribe were forced to walk 600 miles to Luanda. Many of them were chained together. Only 66 survived. In Luanda, the slaves waited in pens for six weeks for a ship to take them to America.

To keep from spending his money on feeding the slaves during the wait, the...