By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker recalls waking or passing through a hallway in bodily distress, then describes the captain and mate assigning dung removal to Black workers before inspection.
The speaker places a difficult memory beside racialized work under the officers' control. Few details explain the redness or the passage through the door, leaving those circumstances open.
A short typed passage: the speaker made 'chambers out of the hallway', woke 'in a putrid redness', and remembers that 'the Captain and his Mate / Manipulated the blacks for the task / Of hauling and scraping that dung'.
The page joins a personal blackout to the ship's labor order, naming who was made to clean up the voyage's waste before the 'Cidney run / into inspection'.