There, also, lies the argument: Carretta's conclusions, comprehensive in his account of Equiano has ignited a blaze in educational circles, mainly amid individuals whom have always considered Equiano, the "black Benjamin Franklin.", due to his autobiography. I don’t think anyone disputes that Equiano was the final self-made man, knowledgeable, intelligent, a captive whom paid for his own liberty, became a seaman, operated a plantation in Central America where he acquired and traded captives, had a change of heart and became an protestor, and later, while he lived in England, made a fortune off his self-published autobiographies, leaving wealth to his mixed British descendant.
