The transatlantic slave trade paved the way for the mass distribution of human civilization's strongest workforce. The idea of ​​using other humans as a means of production was initially internal only to Africa, but when other nations began to witness the degradation of a race, they saw an opportunity to tap into the weakened morals of a race which in turn allowed Africans from falling into a lower class. Thus began the dispersion of slaves to other nations that needed to fill the labor gap. An event that represents the opening moment of the transatlantic slave trade in the readings occurs when Equiano was on guard duty with one of his sisters and was kidnapped by a group of people. Since Equiano was kidnapped, he has been sold numerous times through different masters and has traveled from coast to coast. Equiano also witnessed for the first time in his life a slave ship full of black people of all kinds chained together with despondency and painful expressions, and it was then that he realized the future that awaited him. Through the descriptions and Equiano's desire to maintain his former slavery compared to the current condition he was in, we can imagine how horrible and dehumanizing the slaves on the ground were treated. According to Equiano, many of the African slaves had personalities and unpleasant traits similar to those of the white slave owners on the ship due to the close interaction they had with each other. According to Gomez's Reversing Sail, the initial moment of the transatlantic slave trade occurred because “Muslim forces in al-Andalus never had control of the entire Iberian Peninsula and were continually threatened by Christian enemies during their nearly 800-year rule ” (Gomez 59). As a result, “both in Iberia and in