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Olaudah Equiano On The Slave Trade Summary

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Olaudah Equiano’s narrative on the Slave Trade shows the actual realities he faces while on a ship to Barbados. In later research you come to find out that Equiano becomes a freed slave and advocates with Great Britain to end the slave trade. Throughout his journey he encounters on board uncertainties, abuse and ship conditions. On the ship to Barbados, there is a pattern of abuse aimed towards the enslaved people for the simplest refusals such as not eating. Equiano talks about a somewhat “pact” of enslaved men who wished to go over board and cease their lives while the whites start to shoot out towards them due to a situation where the white men fished and instead of giving the fish to the enslaved beings they decided to throw them back into the water. With this discovery, the mortality rate draws attention to the reader and gets one to ask, “How many people didn’t end up disembarking, by choice?” Although, the data for on board suicide will never be found, you can find out the estimate data of deaths and the morality deaths as a whole. …show more content…

The data from the tables shows that Great Britain based ships have the highest mortality rate and deaths than the other countries, with 15% as the mortality rate and 942 deaths in total. France wasn’t far behind considering their 14% mortality rate and 33 deaths to their 200 passenger total. The U.S.A had the lowest mortality rate and the lowest counted deaths with rounded out 0% and 9

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17.1 Captivity and Enslavement, Olaudah Equiano, the interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano written by himself 1. What are Equiano’s impressions of the white men on the ship and their treatment of the slaves? How does this treatment reflect the slave traders’ primary concerns? Equiano’s first impression of these white men is a feeling of uncertainty and sorrow for the future. As his story goes on Equiano is afraid of these white men, but also he is wishing to end it all because of the conditions and treatment of the slaves.

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Equiano organized group of people called the “Sons of Africa,” they campaigned through public speaking, letter writing in a large open area of lawmakers to abolish slavery. He also led a group of delegate in support of improving the condition of slave ships, to limit the number of enslave Africans that ships could carry. Equiano knew his life story was one of the most important arguments against slavery. So he uses his own life story to persuade the British to abolish slavery by writing his own life story. “The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano”.

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Olaudah Equiano was one of many individuals who were taken from Africa and sold into slavery. However, he was unique in that he was eventually able to buy his own freedom, while most enslaved Africans were forced to live their entire lives in bondage. Equiano's story began when he was kidnapped while playing outside with his sister on a day when all the adults in his village were working. The kidnappers brought him and his sister far away from home and sold them into slavery, putting them to work for a family. Equiano planned to escape but was sold again before he could do so, and was subsequently moved to various countries along the coast.

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In Olaudah Equiano’s narrative, he demonstrates an oppressive tone in order to create sympathy for the slaves. For example, when the slaves pack onto the ships, the author describes, “[that] the stench…was so intolerably loathsome…it was dangerous to remain there” (Equiano 45). The diction Equiano uses such as, “stench” and “intolerably loathsome” leads to an increased amount of sympathy for the slaves suffering in the horrendous conditions. Equiano illuminates the dehumanization of the black slaves by describing the atrocities of where they survive. Furthermore, after days without food, instead of providing the slaves with much needed food, the whites simply, “tossed the remaining fish in the sea...although [the slaves] begged and pleaded

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Olaudah Equiano was one of Britain’s earliest known African authors. He was a prominent historical figure who through writing about his experiences as a slave prompted him to become involved in the British abolition movement. His descriptive writings had a momentous effect on the perception of the slave trade and slavery, from that of an African slave. Recently, there have been many questions about his biographical record on whether he was born in Africa or in America. Yet, Equiano’s birthplace should not have any substantial impact on the credibility, viability or dependability as a source on the slave trade and slavery, merely because whether these events happened to him personally or not, it did happen to millions of other African slaves.

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Equiano’s narrative not only opens doors to ending slavery, but gives us some clear insight about the many struggles the slaves endure. “Equaino Olaudah was born in the mid-1700s, in the tribe of Ibo in the village of Essaka (Benin) from the kingdom of Benin which is southeastern Nigeria, West Africa”. According to the author, “Equiano was captured by black slave raider at age 11or 12, then he and his sister were kidnapped. After he and his sister were kidnapped, they were separated, he spent months in the administration of a dark ruler, whose treatment of him was mellow compared and the ruthlessness of the British slave merchants to whom he was sold before long. “He was taken to Barbados in West Indies by the slave merchants, however, he was not sold there, the traders took him to America, he was bought by a Virginia plantation owner in America”.

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