Olaudah Equiano Book Report
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, establishes a profound tone within the text, writing of truth and an unexaggerated account of Equiano’s life journey. Equiano’s tone of writing is humble. The purpose of the book is not for his own vanity or pride but to capture the power his faith which guided him through slavery until the point of his freedom. As the chapters unfold, Equiano establishes an authentic account of his plan to abolish the horrors of slavery by creating physical written text to illustrate the magnitude of the abuse and suffering slaves endured. The book maintains his reports of impassioned and emotionally centred rants against the slave trade industry. Along with many strong stances in regards to the so
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Eboe man and those women trained in combat, would kidnap men from other tribes or districts for slavery. Traders would forge settlements among the chiefs of tribes in trade for slaves. Equiano writes about the similarities of African and European cultures. Eboe culture and religion are similar to that of Europeans, the only separation was that of skin colour. Nonetheless, Europeans did not care to see the potential for civilized Africans because they were only viewed to be enslaved. At the early age of eleven, Equiano and his sister were than kidnapped, separated and sold into slavery. The horrors, of being kidnapped only to be separated from his loved ones. His journey of constantly being sold arrived after many months where he is encountered by a slave-ship waiting for him. To his shock he encounters something so estrange to his eyes, European white males. Alarmed by what he saw, all black males aboard were slaves linked together by chains resembling animals. Slave endured horrific amount of pain, forced to be below deck with lack of any hygienic ways to operate themselves. These condition were cruel, frightful, and gruesome that epidemics began to arise generating copious amounts of slaves to take ill and die. There long and extensive journey embarked on the land of Barbados were all slave were soon to be auctioned off for slavery. Equiano was one of the copious
Eboe man and those women trained in combat, would kidnap men from other tribes or districts for slavery. Traders would forge settlements among the chiefs of tribes in trade for slaves. Equiano writes about the similarities of African and European cultures. Eboe culture and religion are similar to that of Europeans, the only separation was that of skin colour. Nonetheless, Europeans did not care to see the potential for civilized Africans because they were only viewed to be enslaved. At the early age of eleven, Equiano and his sister were than kidnapped, separated and sold into slavery. The horrors, of being kidnapped only to be separated from his loved ones. His journey of constantly being sold arrived after many months where he is encountered by a slave-ship waiting for him. To his shock he encounters something so estrange to his eyes, European white males. Alarmed by what he saw, all black males aboard were slaves linked together by chains resembling animals. Slave endured horrific amount of pain, forced to be below deck with lack of any hygienic ways to operate themselves. These condition were cruel, frightful, and gruesome that epidemics began to arise generating copious amounts of slaves to take ill and die. There long and extensive journey embarked on the land of Barbados were all slave were soon to be auctioned off for slavery. Equiano was one of the copious