What Makes Olaudah Equiano Loyal
Olaudah Equiano Loyal or not
Olaudah Equiano was an African who was born to the Eboe people in 1745 in a place called Essaka. He recalls much of his childhood very vividly. He recalls the system of marriage that they had and how it was very strict because adultery was a severely punishable crime epically for females. He disused how marriages occurred within his people and how the girl’s parents would give her new husband a dowry which is a gift of some sort. He also discussed how they would all get together to build houses for everyone in the village and how his people extremely clean. He mentioned that he was always taught to wash his hands and they would abstain from touching women on their menstrual cycle. To me this part of the book seems to be part of his imagination rather than to actually be real because being only ten years old he paid extreme attention to things that only adults would pay attention too. Also at that young age it’s surprising that he was taught about menstrual cycles. …show more content…
He mentions that at his first owners he ran away because he killed an elderly slave’s chicken. She then pleaded with the master not to harm him. He was then bought by a rich woman. He lived with her and her son who was around his age. He was barely treated like a slave. After that he was transferred to another country which to him was very strange and unpleasant. He saw that when the people went to eat they did not clean their hands and the women here ate, drank, and slept with men. He was then put on a ship set for new land. Much of his life is not consistent and that makes it hard for him to call somewhere
Olaudah Equiano was an African who was born to the Eboe people in 1745 in a place called Essaka. He recalls much of his childhood very vividly. He recalls the system of marriage that they had and how it was very strict because adultery was a severely punishable crime epically for females. He disused how marriages occurred within his people and how the girl’s parents would give her new husband a dowry which is a gift of some sort. He also discussed how they would all get together to build houses for everyone in the village and how his people extremely clean. He mentioned that he was always taught to wash his hands and they would abstain from touching women on their menstrual cycle. To me this part of the book seems to be part of his imagination rather than to actually be real because being only ten years old he paid extreme attention to things that only adults would pay attention too. Also at that young age it’s surprising that he was taught about menstrual cycles. …show more content…
He mentions that at his first owners he ran away because he killed an elderly slave’s chicken. She then pleaded with the master not to harm him. He was then bought by a rich woman. He lived with her and her son who was around his age. He was barely treated like a slave. After that he was transferred to another country which to him was very strange and unpleasant. He saw that when the people went to eat they did not clean their hands and the women here ate, drank, and slept with men. He was then put on a ship set for new land. Much of his life is not consistent and that makes it hard for him to call somewhere