Olaudah was a very well-articulated man in his autobiography and he had many thoughts expressed as an enslaved man towards the colonies and Philadelphia. Olaudah Equiano has been enslaved for many years after being taken from his homeland of Essaka. He wasn’t always in Philadelphia or in the colonies because of his master’s travels to many diverse places like the West Indies, Pennsylvania, London, England, Georgia, Louis borough Caribbean, and South Carolina. Olaudah was a very vigilant man in seeing the condition and treatment of his fellow brethren slaves in different places around the world. The more he saw the unkind treatment of slaves, the more and more he detests it.
Olaudah has been experiencing trauma of leaving his home when his
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Olaudah was thankfully treated respectably by most of his masters with the exception of Captain Pascal who took his money and sold him when he thought that Olaudah was going to leave him once in Philadelphia. One master took him to see and help out during the fight against Louis borough but while there he saw so much terror and violence, he started detaching himself from fear at a modest level. He saw Philadelphia in a good light with people buying his goods at a good rate, first seeing a Quaker church, and he admired the Quakers in them starting to let a lot of slaves free plus creating free schools for them and other people too. In Georgia, he didn’t really enjoy it when he was there because while he was there he was beaten by a drunken Dr. Perkins who doesn’t like foreign slaves in his fields but years later he was able to do a burial service in Georgia. Olaudah was very appalled by the West Indies after he has saw many despicable things done to slaves like the stealing of their possessions, flogging them, pleased their passions with slave females of most ages, cutting men’s legs off, hung, burnt, murdered, and …show more content…
The false sense of freedom came from hearing about a freeman named Joseph Clipson that was just taken up in Olaudah’s ship by a Bermudas captain and then took him away from his wife and kid to work in the West Indies. In many colonies, Olaudah still felt the oppression of the fear of bad white men who don’t care if you are a freeman but still will take you as slaves. Similar to the freeman’s experience, Olaudah was almost taken up as a slave when he unintentionally angered the Captain by denying his offer to work for him for wages then the Captain hoisted him up in rope in his own ship. In his words he said “Hitherto I had thought only slavery dreadful; but the state of a free negro appeared to me now equally so at least, and in some respects even worse; for they live in constant alarm for their liberty, which is but nominal; and they are universally insulted and plundered without the possibility of redress such being the equity of the West Indian laws .that no free negro’s evident will be admitted in their courts of justice”(pg