The greatest men are the those who make use of their circumstances to pull away from their shackles and make something out of it. In the life of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave whose contributions amounted to the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. Most men will try to over glorify themselves in their own autobiographies but this is absent from Equiano’s book. He saw himself as a byproduct of his surroundings and experiences therefore showing how his life experiences formed his thoughts and ideas. We follow Equiano through the beginning of his slavehood to his final written moment in the text as a free married man arguing for the abolishment of slavery. The reader is put into Equiano’s shoes and creates a relationship that makes one feel
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Through Equiano’s journeys we can see the many different slave regions in the United States and in the caribbean. Equiano mentions that life as a freed slave was worse than slavehood because he was unable to go to his master for protection or help. He learned had to make his own way to success and happiness through his faith. In order for him to succeed in his efforts as an abolitionist, he used his life experience as well as luck and determination like in his slave days. His interest in the abolitionist movement is the culmination of his life experiences as a sailor, slave, slave overseer, and finally as a freed man. The importance of Equiano’s life is that through all his triumphs and failures he was able to make the best of it. The entire socio economic political structure at the time did not allow for someone like Equiano to have any relevance even as a freed man. He had to fight tooth and nail in order to achieve what he had done and through this autobiography we see into his determination. One thing is certain, due to the integral part of Christianity in his daily life, he would not have made it far without it. The story of Olaudah Equiano is a story of an average man who sees opportunities and seizes them. He is not a great man of who we so often hear stories about but instead an average human being who rejects the condition he is in and attempts to make a change for himself and for other
Through Equiano’s journeys we can see the many different slave regions in the United States and in the caribbean. Equiano mentions that life as a freed slave was worse than slavehood because he was unable to go to his master for protection or help. He learned had to make his own way to success and happiness through his faith. In order for him to succeed in his efforts as an abolitionist, he used his life experience as well as luck and determination like in his slave days. His interest in the abolitionist movement is the culmination of his life experiences as a sailor, slave, slave overseer, and finally as a freed man. The importance of Equiano’s life is that through all his triumphs and failures he was able to make the best of it. The entire socio economic political structure at the time did not allow for someone like Equiano to have any relevance even as a freed man. He had to fight tooth and nail in order to achieve what he had done and through this autobiography we see into his determination. One thing is certain, due to the integral part of Christianity in his daily life, he would not have made it far without it. The story of Olaudah Equiano is a story of an average man who sees opportunities and seizes them. He is not a great man of who we so often hear stories about but instead an average human being who rejects the condition he is in and attempts to make a change for himself and for other