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    slaves‚ an important one to look into is if gender had any role in this. Up until today we see gender have a large role in jobs‚ how hard someone is worked‚ and treatment towards each other. I will be comparing the slave lives of Mary Prince and Olaudah Equiano‚ both of the same time period of the late 1780’s. The story of Mary Prince describes Prince’s life while she was a slave‚ under multiple different

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    Oral: * Background information on Olaudah Equiano and his life (who‚ what‚ when‚ where‚ and why). * Four specific facts regarding Olaudah Equiano. * Your personal views on each of the four facts that you present. Visual: * To complement your presentation‚ you must provide a minimum of four images that illustrate Olaudah Equiano’s life experiences. Notes: * Record the four facts that you are presenting in your own handwriting and provide them to your parent/guardian audience

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    Children in the slave trade were treated very poorly. The capture‚ transport‚ and sale of these slave children affected them mentally and physically. There were also many disadvantages and advantages to owning a slave and selling slaves. Some of these documents seem to provide more reliable information than the others. Overall‚ slaves caused more problems than they solved and the actual slaves were permanently scarred from the experience. Due to poor treatment of the slaves‚ they can’t find happiness

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    Olaudah Equiano‚ The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equino Written by: Olaudah Equiano (1789) What were Equiano’s impression of the white men on the ship and their treatment of the slaves? How does this treatment reflect the slave traders’ concerns? The ship Equiano ended up on was a gruesome terrifying slave and cargo ship. Equiano describes the white men that were on the ship and how the slaves were treated. He goes into detail as to why he felt the way he did and about

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    Olaudah Equiano’s‚ a respected former slave and Author of the Autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚ or Gustavus Vassa‚ the African‚ authenticity of his autobiographical account regarding his childhood has been questioned by scholars and historians. Some state that he had only made up his African origin to gain political success whereas others go against that argument. I believe that Equiano’s autobiographical account of his childhood is authentic. Vincent Carretta

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    Careful planning of attack and defense are key elements to winning. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano does more than just detail the experiences of a former African slave‚ it sets forth the play sequence between the various players engaged in the slave trade‚ the emotions involved‚ the effects and consequences on the players‚ and the future of the game if it were allowed to continue. Equiano experienced life as a slave on several continents. He endured the torment of the Middle Passage

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    going to give you mine. In the autobiography ‘Kidnapped’ written by Olaudah Equiano‚ is one of the first tirmes we hear about the journey of a slave from a firsthand point of view. The thing is‚ can we trust an official document like the Constitution to be true facts just as much as Equiano’s autobiography of the declaration of sentiments to be the most reliable way to report history. The autobiography ‘Kidnapped’‚ by Equiano is his point of view on the journey on slave ships to America. The story

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    but when they arrived things changed. During this time‚ the notion of “ all men being free‚” was proposed by Benjamin Franklin‚ but in contrary‚ all men weren’t necessarily free. The work “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚” by Olaudah Equiano described the life and emotion of how the experience of being sold into slavery affected him. In Equiano’s narrative‚ he distinguished a

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    Although both Stephanie Smallwood and Olaudah Equiano did not write their descriptions of slavery in the late sixteenth century to mid seventeenth century from direct experience‚ they both created valuable documents that were as relevant to all readers’ lives then as they are now. Throughout his narrative Olaudah Equiano leaves clues that some of his experiences in his early life are not his own. In 1789‚ when the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was written‚ there were few to no

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    105 18 October 2012 Olaudah Equiano: A Man of Many Customs The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano describes the life of a native African who was kidnapped from his homeland in the Eboe Province (which is now the Nigerian town of Isseke) at age eleven and thrown into the horrors of the African slave trade. Unlike most victims of the slave trade‚ Equiano regained his freedom and experienced multiple facets of life that no one could have expected. Equiano became a man of diverse

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