The journey continues and conditions worsen. He hates himself for playing the fife and being part of the entire situation. He sees the sailors with the same lack of pity they have for the slaves. The flogging only makes him think more about everything that is going on around him. He is immediately taken back on deck and flogged for being disobedient. He refuses to play the fife and goes to his quarters. As the journey to America continues, Jessie realizes how much he hates everything around him, including the slaves, as they represent his own enslavement on the ship. Jessie is shocked by what is going on, but tries to keep himself focused on staying alive and getting home to his family. Many of them are still alive when they are tossed into the water, where they are eaten by sharks or drown. Whenever a slave becomes ill he is thrown overboard at once so that the illness will not spread to other slaves. Once they are taken onto the ship, they are packed as tightly as possible into the hold, ending up on top of one another. Jessie cannot believe the treatment of the enslaved people that he observes.
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