Olaudah Equiano The Horror Of A Slave Ship

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Olaudah Equiano is the author of “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”, and “The Horror of A Slave Ship” is just one of the chapters in his book. Born a free African man but Equiano was kidnapped together with his sister, he had a frightful experience travelling on a slave ship across Atlantic Ocean to the island of Barbadoes. Throughout his life, Equiano had a handful of masters, was given a new name, and eventually regained his freedom with help of his owner. Soon Equiano moved to London and married to an British woman. From there on, he devoted the rest of his life to support an anti-slave movement in British.
It was Equiano’s own people that kidnapped and sold him into slavery. At the moment all the adults gone of to work. Two men and one woman sneak in the house and captured both Equiano and his little sister. They tied up the kid’s hands, stopped their mouth and then they escaped through the woods. …show more content…

Equiano was seperated from his sister, his hands were tied up, and was forced to stay in a large sack. Equiano suffered horror and grief from the trip, that he was unable to feed himself for several days. Along the travelling, Equiano met his sister again. But shortly afterward the kids got seperated one more time. The reunion gave Equiano hopes, and then put him through greater misery. All of this is nothing compares to adversities on a slave ship. When Equiano got on board of a Dutch vessel, he was horrified by the appearances of white men, he also confused by their language and equipments. Although it seems impossible to survive difficulties on the slave ship, our little Equiano endured everything from the stench, sickness, and the lack of fresh air. The miserable did not end there, when the kid got mistreated, whipped and

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