Olaudah Equiano Reflection
Olaudah Equiano’s life as a slave was different compared to the other slave stories we have known. His experiences as a slave were actually pretty amazing. Some of his masters treated him as part of their family which was rarely to happen for a slave. In addition, he was able to go around and explore the world; but that's not it, he even purchased his own freedom. One of the bad things that I considered really changed his life was when he and his sister was abducted to sell and later on got separated from one another. This could highly affect a person’s different aspect of his or her life especially when they're close to whoever they got separated from. Equiano used that separation with his sister to keep on traveling farther from home rather
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He saw all the possible reactions of painful emotions from the slaves during the Middle Passage. From confusion and terror, he was able to know all the emotions slaves felt when they were distant from their home and family. In this book. it also mentioned about the 4 stages of the African Slave Trade. First, the capture of Native Americans, and the danger, exhausting journey to the European ships, which were waiting at the coast. Next would be the Middle Passage, where slaves were transported across the Atlantic in the most wicked conditions we could have imagined. Then, the progressive introduction to a life in which forced labor and disease-ridden environment were happening right after the slaves came at the West Indies. However, it took place before slaves were put to work. Lastly would be the actual Enslavement Period. By these stages, he was able to describe what was happening before, during, and after to the slaves who were in the Middle Passage. He actually seek for the difference between the treatment of Europeans and Africans, their counterparts, to the slaves. His own experiences while he was still at Africa varies wildly depending who was his master. In addition, these experiences of his was nothing compare to the dehumanization he would experienced when he was put on a ship. His differentiation between Europeans and native Africans occurred even when he's still enslaved by the native Africans. He was dumbfounded on how and why the white slaveowners were wasteful, for the fact that there were many people, in slaves in particular, who were starving below the deck. He even described the white slaveowners as greedy, violent, and wicked. He also noticed that his fellow Africans who were near the coast were more immoral and corrupt and he believes that it’s because they have closer communication with the whites. This means that Africans lost along the way
He saw all the possible reactions of painful emotions from the slaves during the Middle Passage. From confusion and terror, he was able to know all the emotions slaves felt when they were distant from their home and family. In this book. it also mentioned about the 4 stages of the African Slave Trade. First, the capture of Native Americans, and the danger, exhausting journey to the European ships, which were waiting at the coast. Next would be the Middle Passage, where slaves were transported across the Atlantic in the most wicked conditions we could have imagined. Then, the progressive introduction to a life in which forced labor and disease-ridden environment were happening right after the slaves came at the West Indies. However, it took place before slaves were put to work. Lastly would be the actual Enslavement Period. By these stages, he was able to describe what was happening before, during, and after to the slaves who were in the Middle Passage. He actually seek for the difference between the treatment of Europeans and Africans, their counterparts, to the slaves. His own experiences while he was still at Africa varies wildly depending who was his master. In addition, these experiences of his was nothing compare to the dehumanization he would experienced when he was put on a ship. His differentiation between Europeans and native Africans occurred even when he's still enslaved by the native Africans. He was dumbfounded on how and why the white slaveowners were wasteful, for the fact that there were many people, in slaves in particular, who were starving below the deck. He even described the white slaveowners as greedy, violent, and wicked. He also noticed that his fellow Africans who were near the coast were more immoral and corrupt and he believes that it’s because they have closer communication with the whites. This means that Africans lost along the way