Olaudah Equiano In The 1700s

During the 1700s, many ideas were proposed to make change in the New World. The thought of freedom for all men was introduced by Benjamin Franklin in his work. Benjamin Franklin got mistreated as if he was a slave while he was working with his brother.As which his brother tried to take in control of his newspaper that he worked hard on. As Equiano got captured and taken from his home.Olaudah Equiano had similar experiences with Benjamin’s document. Equiano was an African American who was captured and forced to be a slave at a young age. In the Ibo culture it was known that slavery was part of this culture. Many african peoples expected for this cause to happen . However, everyone thought he was going to become a “chief , an elder or a …show more content…
He hope that he would at least get some help from someone, but that wasn’t the case. On this ship he felt so closed in with nowhere to go it was hundreds of slaves on this ship that was fighting for the right to be free just like Equiano. “This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died, thus falling victims to improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers.”(Equiano) This odor killed so many people by the horrible smell and sickness it provided because it made the slaves sick to their stomach this would cause the slave masters to throw them overboard to not kill the others on the ship, even though some wished to go ahead and die from the pain they were experiencing. “In this situation I expected every hour to share the fate of my companions, some of whom were almost daily brought upon deck at the point of death, which I began to hope would soon put an end to my miseries.” Equiano shared his beliefs and thoughts with others to hope and maybe give them fate before they die being they were