The European superiority complex also played a crucial role in the slave trade, and it is perfectly depicted in the narrative through the roles of the hospitable merchants and horrid crewmen. The merchants are described as hospitable, as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening, even going so far as to carry on with their dinner like slavery “was agreeable to [their] custom.” To the wealthy during that day and age, Africans were subhuman compared to them, so slavery was an everyday and even understandable occurrence to them, allowing them to carry on as if nothing completely deplorable is happening right under their roof. The crewmembers also contain the European superiority complex as they withhold the excess fish they caught and, “rather
