Olaudah Equiano Research Paper

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In “The Interesting Narrative and Other Writing,” Olaudah Equiano is an African American who was born in Eboe (Africa) in the year of seventeen forty-five. With being the youngest sibling, he and his sister would watch their surroundings wondering when they will be kidnapped. One night, while watching their neighbors, Equiano and his sister were kidnapped. They were separated from each other and both sold to slave traders. Throughout several years, he was sold to different masters until he met Robert King. Equiano traveled the world with the King, causing him to learn that African’s who are free still have their life worse.
Introduction
The experience of working with a higher up authority or being beaten to work faster is unforgettable. In “The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings” Olaudah Equiano wrote several memoirs of his journey of being a slave. When Equiano lived in Eboe, which is a piece of Africa, he and his sister were left home alone when two men and a woman came over
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Equiano states, “as our manners are simple, our luxuries are few,” (Equiano, p. 34). Equiano accustomed to his own type of cultural until he was kidnapped and became a slave at an earlier age. Throughout each section of the book, he wrote about an experience he has survived. Equiano traveled through the country and was with several different masters. Each chieftain where different, some would brutally assault their slaves to work or they would treat the slaves with decency. Equiano stated, “I know learned” that after he left the estate of Musquito shore, “during which the slaves were well fed and comfortable,” (Equiano, p. 217). Equiano knew that some masters were pleasant, but when it comes down to arguing about slavery, then the abusive masters came out in his writing more. Not only did he write about the masters, but he wrote about