Olaudah Equiano #1486

 Caption from poster__     Olaudah Equiano  Gustavus Vassa  1789     Born in Benin in the late 18th century, Equiano was enslaved as a young boy and passed through a variety of experiences, many of them horrible; but he managed  to acquire enough learning and independence to become a major voice advocating an end to slavery. His  Narrative, written in English in 1789, immediately became  a sensation, and has remained a classic source for our knowledge about the European slave trade from the point of view of the slave.  In what ways does Equiano contrast  slavery within Africa with the sort of slavery he encountered  in the western hemisphere? What sufferings does he describe on the slave ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the  Caribbean? In what ways were slaves cheated by whites?   Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) was kidnapped from his African village  at the age of eleven, shipped through the arduous "Middle Passage" of the Atlantic Ocean, seasoned in the West Indies and so