Olaudah Equiano Document Analysis

The Olaudah Equiano’s recount of the horror of slavery is one of the most detailed, and one of the best document that really show us the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade. Olaudah Equiano was an African slave from west Africa, who is according to the document was kidnapped from his homeland Benin at the age of 10, and was sold as slave. After being sold many time in Europe, Equiano was shipped to Barbados and then Virginia, and then after he gained his freedom, Equiano wrote a book solely based on his experience across the atlantic. Equiano’s document tell us many things, including how the people viewed the society and the morality of the public at that time. This document also show us how far we have come, as a society, as the whole world, from the time of brutality, time of savage, to the time of peace, and sociality. This document still has effect on our society even to this day, because even to this day, the discrimination against a group of people because of their race, religions, or nationality still exist. This document reveal how the slaves were treated, how slaves were nothing but a property, and how the Africans view the european.
I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me. Their complexions too differing so much from ours…”, Equiano saw the european for the first time and assume their criminality, because of their difference appearance. Even to this day, there are many cases where people assume someone’s criminality, just because of their race, skin color and nationality. Then again in the second paragraph, Equiao assume the european to be savages, (2)“I asked them if we were not to be eaten by those white men with horrible looks, red faces, and loose