Slaves Role In Olaudah Equiano's Life

People didn’t really know about the impact of being a slave actually has on a person. Olaudah Equiano was a person who was captured in the country of Nigeria at a very young age. Olaudah also wrote his very own autobiography of his experience of being made into a slave. He was enslaved and shipped to the Caribbean therefore; he spoke out for those slaves who were enslaved. He was sold many times so he was owned by many people. Olaudah Equiano was moved from place and he would also earn money for trading whereas later he had earned enough money to buy his freedom. However, many people who have read his autobiography thought to themselves that slaves should not have to buy their own freedom but be given it instead. People should not have to work, be sold or be kidnapped at a young age to work for a number of people and be shipped to different places. …show more content…
Olaudah Equiano was one out of many that was enslaved. He was made to work hard and follow orders at the age of 11 which must have had a very big impact on his life with the fat of being separated from his parents and so. Slavery can destroy a person’s life altogether and make them unaware of the simplest things because of the trauma they have had been made to go through. He made people aware of the fact that being enslaved is very different to being put into an act of slavery. Being enslaved is when someone is imprisoned and locked up from almost the real world. The concept of enslavement is expensive and very inefficient but the owners don’t really care as long as they have their own