The general feeling of the slaves toward their situation was "hopelessness".
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first distributed in 1789 in London, is the collection of memoirs of Olaudah Equiano. The book portrays Equiano's time spent in subjugation, and records his endeavors at turning into a free man and his inevitable achievement in picking up success in his own freedom and in business from there on.
