Olaudah Equiano

In the article, “This I Believe” Eboo Patel writes a short story about what happened in his life. He tries to convince others to take action when their friends or someone faces problems. While Patel and his Jewish friend are in school, strangers are humiliating Patel’s friend in front of everybody. But Patel did nothing to comfort his friend nor confront strangers. It is sad that what happen to Patel’s Jewish friend and probably he will think his friends are not reliable when trouble comes…

Equiano in this quote is expressing a lot of anger towards the law of slavery. He feels as though this inhumane act is dehumanizing the people who are supporting it. He states “such a tendency has the slave trade to debauch men’s minds, and harden them to every feeling of humanity!” Equanio comes off as though he’s never seen such an extent of cruelty to whip and lash on another for no particular reason. Demoralizing their very being. What’s expressed in this quote in my opinion is that Equiano…

“Wishing for Death”: Fabrication, Abolition, and Viability in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Frederick Douglas once said, “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future.” Olaudah Equiano’s narrative is a description of the past that must be considered in the present of 1789. His memoir proved a vital piece of literature in the enactment of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 in Britain (Revealing Histories, n.d.). It has since been…

was a horrific and terrifying experience for enslaved Africans to go through. Due to eyewitness accounts from enslaved people and Europeans, we have a clear picture of what it would have been like for them. In Olaudah Equiano’s book “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”, he provides a firsthand account of the conditions and life of enslaved people in the Middle Passage. Another account of the slave trade called “Memoir of Florence Hall” by Florence Hall gives a similar…

A well educated African American, who was forced into slavery by the name of Olaudah Equiano. Equiano opened many opportunities in the black communities of the British colonies, by writing a personal narrative of his life. He believed that, “a life without liberty is no life at all”. In believing in this Equiano did everything in his power to gain his freedom away from the wicked acts of slavery in southern America. Knowing that a well argument would be needed to construct the argument to show…

Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, written by Himself relives the story of a young man taken from his home in Africa and was put into slavery at the age of eleven. Olaudah Equiano 's quest of being a slave to buying his own freedom was accomplished by not only his physical work, but by both his religious views and scholarly ways. “Equiano is truly a man of conflict, and his feelings towards slavery are complex and sometimes…

Planet earth has witnessed a vast amount of highs and lows that define humans through patterns of world history. Relating back to the birth of civilization, mankind has come a way to be far from that starting point in the early B.C. In order to relate to this beginning time William Goulding wrote during World War II, Lord of the Flies, expressing the innocent can easily be shaped for the destruction of their own people. According to Goulding, mankind is initially wicked; therefore its man-made…

The excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, by Olaudah Equiano, touches upon the treatment and lives of slaves in the West Indies. Through this short excerpt the reader learns about what he saw while he was a slave in the West Indies islands. Not only are there very few primary sources that have survived from the eighteenth century to modern day, but also there are hardly any sources that come from the viewpoint of a well-educated, free slave. When reading this…

Have you ever gone through intense pain and suffering in your life? Well for Olaudah Equiano, pain and suffer was his life. As for Mary Rowlandson, the tides went in her favor. Although Mary underwent much pain and suffering, it was only for a short period of time. The very interesting stories, A Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson, and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, tells us the stories of the pain and suffering each soul underwent. Although These stories…

Olaudah Equiano and Phillis Wheatly The middle passage is a demoniac journey that Africans experienced during the 1600’s, they were loaded onto a ship to be sent to the west indies. The historical authors and slaves Olaudah Equiano and Phillis Wheatly were both captured at a young age to be sold into slavery. Autobiographies from these young African’s Phillis Wheatly, “To the Right Honourable William Earl, of Partmonth” and Olaudah Equiano’s “The Life of Gustavus Vassa” are based on their…