Read the excerpt from thoughts and sentiments. i saw him take a gun, a piece of cloth, and some lead for me, and then he told me that he must now leave me there, and went off. this made me cry bitterly, but i was soon conducted to a prison, for three days, where i heard the groans and cries of many, and saw some of my fellow-captives. but when a vessel arrived to conduct us away to the ship, it was a most horrible scene; there was nothing to be heard but rattling of chains, smacking of whips, and the groans and cries of our fellow-men. what is cugoano’s purpose in this excerpt? to prove that slavery still happens to show that slavery is harmful to society to reveal the horrors of enslavement to justify the existence of slavery