Similarities Between Olaudah Equiano And The General History Of Virginia

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How similar is the slave narrative, by Olaudah Equiano, and The General History of Virginia, by John Smith? The slave narrative is about Equianos travel to Barbados from Africa aboard the cargo ship, and the hardships he faced on the way. The General History of Virginia is about John Smiths experiences in the new world, Virginia, and with the Powhatan Native Americans. Both stories consist of the firsthand experiences around them, that is all these stories share. These stories are quite different; Equiano was sold, Smith was adopted, and Equino was aboard the ship throughout the story, Smiths story went everywhere he went in the new world and a small portion of his voyage there. Even though both stories are their first hand-experiences,