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    Olaudah Equiano In 1745, Olaudah Equiano was born in a small village in Isseke,Nigeria. His father was one of the chiefs in the village. At age eleven Equiano and his sister were kidnapped by two men and a woman never to see his home or parents again. After being kidnapped he was hiked across part of Africa untill he arrived at the coast where he was loaded onto a slave ship. While crossing the Atlantic to Barbados onboard the slave ship he and his countrymen were subject to horrors

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    Unfortunately, because of how young Olaudah was captured there is not much information on his childhood all we know is that Olaudah was born in the Eboe province in the area that is known as southern Nigeria Africa. He was the youngest out of all his seven brothers and sisters who belonged to the lgbo tribe. One day at the age of eleven while everyone else went out to do their day’s work. Two men and a women climbed over their fence and seized him and his younger sister. The kidnapper’s bound their

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    The article "The Horrors of a Slave Ship" describes the story of Olaudah Equiano. It goes into detail of how Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The author gives the reader a glance of the torture he went through as a captive slave. He includes the horrors he went through and saw in the slave ships. The articles also includes the brutal treatments of the African people and how they were sold and resold. It also includes the liberties they took to free themselves. In all he tell

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    documentations in historical books, the history of the twelve million African slaves that traveled the “Middle Passage” in miserable conditions would not exist. Olaudah Equiano contributes to this horrid history with The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Through this narrative, the appalling personal experience of each slave is depicted. He accomplishes his rhetorical purpose of informing the world of the slave experience in this narrative. His use of unique style and rhetorical devices

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    of the slave trade, the injustices and cruelties that slavery presented were unimaginable. Enslavement of individuals meant separation from their families, destruction of their homes, and potential death. The Middle Passage, a slave voyage to the Americas, was particularly traumatic and shocking for many individuals. On the voyage, the Africans faced dangers to disease, brutal treatment, little food and sanitation, and beatings. In his account of the Middle Passage on pages 450-451, Olaudah Equiano’s

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    Tanis Baumann 10/31/17 2nd Olaudah Equianos and Benjamin Franklin compare and contrast Olaudah and Benjamin where both different and similar in may ways and their own modes of writing and writing styles exhibit their own attitudes to the cause they cared about. Olaudah Equiano, was a former enslaved African and he wrote autobiography showing the horrors of lobbied and slavery and advocated for its abolition.  Benjamin Franklin was a printer whose success as an author led him

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    McDonald Vincent Vance English 251 December 2, 2015 Free Slave Voice “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” (Levi) Mr. Levi’s quote is a response to a question about his survival at Auschwitz. In order to correct unjust or evil, we who stand by and say nothing must speak up, be heard, and be understood for we are many and evil is few. (OE) after reading

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    Throughout the years, many people have attempted to portray the hardships and struggles of slaves based on what they learned or what they might have been taught. But realistically, there is no way for anyone to understand the lives that many blacks were forced into because they have never actually experienced it themselves. During slavery, blacks were separated from their families and pushed into a lifestyle that was dehumanizing and depressing. Their everyday lives were being watched and harsh punishments

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    2015 Olaudah Equiano 's Views on Slavery Olaudah Equiano 's The Life of Olaudah Equiano, is an autobiography that tells the story of a young boy who was kidnapped from his home and put into the life of slavery at the tender age of 11. In 1789 while living in London Mr. Equiano published his autobiography. The book was a huge success and described what it was like for Equiano to be taken from the only home that he had known and shipped halfway around the world to be used a slave. Olaudah is a

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    Captive, by Olaudah Equiano was published in 1789, and tells the story of a young African boy who is kidnaped, taken into slavery and eventually arrives in the Americas where he is sold to a merchant there. Olaudah, who is portrayed as the young slave, explains in narrative the horrors that he and other fellow Africans experienced on their journey from Africa to American where they are meant to be sold and put to work. The article persuades the reader to see from the point of view of the slave, and to

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