Assume a market for cheese puffs with many buyers and sellers with an upward-sloping supply and downward-sloping demand. Where the demand and supply curves meet, the price is $3 and the quantity is 500 pounds.

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Olaudah Equiano was terrified when he first saw the slave ship. His fear of the future was so horrible, he passed out cold. He knew by looking at his captors that he was never going to get home again. Because they looked so different than he and the other enslaved people looked, he knew what his future held. Even the conditions aboard the ship were horrible. The smells were awful and made Olaudah Equiano feel sick. When he refused to eat, he was beaten.