Olaudah Equiano Change Over Time Analysis

In the interesting narrative by Olaudah Equiano he has plenty of life experiences and encounters with American and British societies, and those encounters formulate his opinions on those societies. He both condemns and adopts those societies. He says that he opposes the society, but he goes and adopts aspects of the society, which leads one to believe that he has a positive view on those societies, but that leads one to also believe that his opinion will change over time.
In his condemnations of British society, he talks about their enslavement of him, the brutal slave trade, the middle passage to America, the lack of morals, the perversion of Christianity, and slavery itself. One would think that as someone who was treated so brutally as a slave, and looked down upon that they would hate the people and society that did it to them, but with Equiano once he was free he adopted their societies social norms and adopted things …show more content…
One would say that Equiano might have realized that he may or may not have made a mistake in his judgement, and what he said about Britain and their society, but he knew that regardless of how he felt of his past decisions he was too far along to change his viewpoint, because he was still trying to have slavery abolished, and as a staunch abolitionist if he changed his viewpoint on a couple of topics, it would affect how people viewed him, and all his other views.
In conclusion Equiano had many life experiences with British societies, and condemned them through words, but his actions if followed would lead us to the conclusion that he really supported the society, or was forced to support the society so that he wouldn’t be ostracized further as a free slave. Regardless of his choices and his views one thing we know for sure is that Equiano was a stoic abolitionist, and was a major contributor to the abolition of slavery, sadly it was abolished ten years after he