Equiano Analysis

Equiano, a small boy who was kidnaped from his hometown Nigeria. Equiano ended up in the hands of a chieftain in a lovely part of the country, where he was put to work at the bellows. After a time, he was sold again, and traveled closer to the sea coast. Until he reached the sea, his language was similar enough to those of other tribes, and he was even able to pick up two or three new tongues. In the story, he says “… after many days traveling, during which I had often changed masters…” Through his voyage of different masters, Equiano learned many things and had no choice but to adapt to his surroundings. Although it seemed that his trip with staying with different families, opened his eyes to a different world that he didn’t and wouldn’t have known if he was still in his native hometown. …show more content…
“Here I first saw and tasted cocoa-nuts … and tasted for the first time sugar-cane.” He also found out the type of currency that Tinmah used, which he describe as size of the finger nail. All his admonishments had soon to expire. He was then brought to a country where the surroundings differed from him in almost all particulars. They did not clean their hands before they ate, and they were not circumcised. The women ate, drank, and slept with their men, and they made no sacrifices or offerings. Most shocking was their tradition of sharpening their teeth and scarring themselves. Equiano dreaded they would force him to undergo such modification, and notes that he would have had much more trouble assimilating with Europeans later if he had been so marked. It was also amongst these people that he saw his first large body of water, in a nearby