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    <title>Olaudah Equiano Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Olaudah Equiano Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Probably the best answer to this question is the "talking book."...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Probably the best answer to this question is the "talking book." Equiano's slave narrative presents an early and powerful treatment of the power of literacy, a power that most slaves did not have and that they could only understand with a sense of awe and magic.

I had often seen my master and Dick employed in reading; and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books, as I thought they did; and so to learn how all things had a beginning: for...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What was something from the white world that Equiano observes with a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What was something from the white world that Equiano observes with a sense of awe and magic in Olaudah Equiano?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:55:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ In their narratives, how do Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In their narratives, how do Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano understand identity, both their own and the identities of other people they encounter?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The word "improvident" means "short-sighted" and "avarice" means greed....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The word "improvident" means "short-sighted" and "avarice" means greed.
So what Equiano is saying is that the slave traders were so greedy that they didn't think about the long term -- just about the short term.  In this case, what that means is that they packed too many slaves into the ships because they wanted to make as much money as possible.
Because they did this, the living conditions for the slaves were terrible and many of them became...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:03:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Equiano blame the illness aboard the ship on the "improvident...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Equiano blame the illness aboard the ship on the "improvident avarice" of the traders?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:57:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Student study guide for Olaudah Equiano]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[What insight does Equiano give into the ways in which Africans perceived...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What insight does Equiano give into the ways in which Africans perceived Europeans ?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:14:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what did the ship's crew keep equiano on deck most of the time
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        <description><![CDATA[what did the ship's crew keep equiano on deck most of the time
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:02:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Of course, the fact that Olaudah Equiano was a former slave who had...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Of course, the fact that Olaudah Equiano was a former slave who had taken it the intiative to educate himself and free himself from the chains of physical and mental slavery made his message more effective and powerful.  Equiano, however, had other characteristics that appealed to the British and eventually to American readers.  He moved to Britian after earning his freedom in part because Britian was much closer to absolving slavery at...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:57:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What difference does it make that this call for humane treatment for all...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What difference does it make that this call for humane treatment for all humans came from writings from a man who was not white and who was educated?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:46:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe the ships hold.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Describe the ships hold.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:45:20 PST</pubDate>
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