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Olaudah Equiano Middle Passage
Olaudah Equiano middle passage experience was the most common and accurate at that time in history. He touches on basis to where things only happened to him from his experience. Unlike Olaudah experience the book “Saltwater Slavery” touches on everything from everybody point of views. The book breaks down things that happened on plantations, loading ports, and auction sites. What I will be doing is analyzing both sources and comparing/contrasting them into a paper that correlates with each other.
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