In This chapter the old woman
continues her story and tells Cunegonde and Candide about a man who tricked her
and told her he would take her back to Italy. Instead the man sells her to
someone in Algiers. There they had a plague and it nearly killed her yet she
made it through.
A plague is a serious bacterial infection that can be
deadly. This plague was all over Europe and it was also known as The Black
Plague. It all began because flees would bite dead rats and then bite people
which lead to infections. People who were caught in the plague had boils, open
sores, fevers, headaches, chills and worse. Not only did the plague spread
through Europe it also went through Asia and the Middle East.
During the time of the plague
the French people took over Algeria. With the takeover came racism right behind
it. The French people felt as if the Arabians were under them. This lead to
unequal treatment between the two making anyone not french.
After
that she was sold from Algiers, to Tunis, to Tripoli, to Alexandria, to Smyrna,
and then Constantinople. As a slave this woman had been to all these places
from multiple people. The picture above is a display of the places she was
sold.
Source: http://www.kennethfrawley.com/black_plague_by_ashley_perez.htm
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