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    The Struggle of Olaudah Equiano In the book The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Olaudah Equiano the main character, was a victim to slavery and the world around him. Equiano was an Ibo from Nigeria, the youngest son in the family and his mother's favorite. He was trained at a young age in the arts of agriculture and war. His mother showered him with emblems, as if he was a great warrior. Equiano had a blissful and wonderful childhood. His nation encouraged all to immerse

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    widely read during the time are A Narrative of the Capture and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano. They relate the experiences of a married white Puritan woman captured by Native Americans and an African boy captured for the American slave trade at a young age respectively. They were often used as propaganda, Europeans during this time created stereotypes for Native Americans as being cruel and warlike

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    The horrors of a slave ship, is an excerpt of the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, who was a Nigerian slave. The article relates the moments that he experienced since he was kidnapped until the moment that he was carried away in a slave ship to America. Olaudah Equiano was born in a big African family of 7 children. He was the youngest of the boys and because of that he was his mom´s favorite. Since the youngest age he was trained to fight in war, and used to be adorned by his mom with emblems

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    Part 1: When reading doctrine three, I came to the conclusion that it talks about having the ability to look “outside of the box” and at times to listen to someone else’s reasoning. From reading Benjamin Franklin, I felt that he talks about this in the beginning when addressing the President about the Constitution and his approval. “I am not sure I shall never approve it; for, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to

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    Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano who was known as Gustavus Vassa throughout his entire life was an popular African in London, a freed slave who was in support for the British Movement towards bringing to an end then slave trade. His memoirs in his own “The Interesting Narrative ofthe Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African” describes a young man captured and enslaved only at the tender age of eleven years. The journey of Equiano from captivity of being a slave to freedom, becoming

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    Olaudah Equiano Essay

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    Olaudah Equiano was an African slave born in the year 1745. At the age of eleven, he was savagely taken from his family and sold into the boundaries of slavery. Equiano was shipped to the West Indies but later found himself traveling across the Atlantic. Equiano served the captains of slave ships and British navy vessels. He spent eight years under the leadership of Officer Henry Pascal. During that time frame, he was renamed Gustavus Vassa and sent to school to become educated in reading and writing

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    Olaudah Equiano Biography

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    Olaudah Equiano, also known by the name of Gustavus Vassa which was given to him by his master on a slave ship, was born in the Eboe province of Africa in 1775-1776. Eboe was a part of the kingdom of Benin which is now present-day Nigeria. Equiano, like many others, lived in a village and was kidnapped and sold into slavery. From the chains of enslavement to the freedom in London, he believed that he and his countrymen deserved freedom and equality. Religion would have a huge impact on Equiano’s

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    swear not, but trust to God, and [H]e will deliver us”. In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the narrator displayed himself as being spirituality devoted, though he struggled with his faith throughout his narrative of his journey into slavery, as a slave, and as a freed African. As a boy, Olaudah Equiano was kidnaped from his childhood home and forced into the transatlantic slave trade of the sixteenth century. With the influence of several upstanding Christians in Equiano’s

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    Primary Source Analysis – Equiano Olaudah Equiano had a very unique experience with the slave trade system. He began conveying his experience with how he was captured in his village by two men and a women, who kidnapped him and his sister. Their captors traveled with them for a few days before separating the siblings, and selling Equiano to his first master. He was treated fairly well, even when he ran away for a day and came back, he says his master “having slightly reprimanded me, ordered me

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    Olaudah Equiano Analysis

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    In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Equiano voices the African American experience through his own life events and that of becoming a slave. He begins by reminiscing his childhood lived in Guinea, Africa, and how he was kidnapped into slavery. He later gets traded to Europeans and is shipped off to the island of Barbadoes. However, in this transition he discovers the contrasts of the practices of slavery in his homeland to the one of the Americas. Unlike in Africa, European

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