Describe a slave's life based on your understanding of "The Slave's Dream"?

This poem by Longfellow describes the dream of a slave who longs for his native land and for freedom. Because the bulk of the poem is focused upon this idealized picture of a freedom that, for this slave, will never come, there is not a lot of detail about the day-to-day life of slaves, but we can certainly infer some elements.
The opening of the poem describes a man with "matted hair" and an uncovered chest, lying beside "the ungathered rice," with the tool of his trade, the sickle, still in his hand. This suggests that the sole purpose of the slave's life is to work, to the extent that he exhausts himself and falls asleep still holding his sickle. This is confirmed at the end of the poem, where the slave, after a lifetime of feeling "the driver's whip," finally dies, entirely worn out after a life of suffering.
The slave Longfellow describes also suffers emotional, as well as physical, pain, particularly in his longing for freedom. He dreams of his "dark-eyed queen" and children, from whom he has presumably been parted, and of the wild animals of Africa. Unfortunately, the slave can find his liberty only in death.
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