The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Equiano responds with shock and horror to the conditions he describes aboard the slave ship on the Middle Passage. Equiano is struck by the claustrophobic conditions below decks, and describes in...

Olaudah Equiano describes the conditions in the hold of the ship as overcrowded, smelly, dirty, and so disease-ridden that it was dangerous. The slaves were kept like cargo, so they were chained...

It is interesting that the opening words of Olaudah Equiano mention that his father owned slaves himself because it attaches a certain irony to the poignancy of his tale of captivity in which he...

Olaudah Equiano portrays Western culture candidly. His narrative includes both positive and negative experiences with Europeans and Americans. Although Equiano suffered injustices from cruel white...

In order to understand how the crew is being like this, let us first look at what the word “improvident” means. We will then see where Equiano uses it in the text and we will discuss how the word...

I will focus on only two works to help you get started: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or, Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789) and one of Phillis Wheatley's exquisite...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African is an autobiography written by Oluadua Equiano in 1789. In the introduction to the text, Equiano writes that...

In his autobiography, Olaudah Equiano includes the story about the brothers to call attention to the devastating effects of enslavement through separating families. The passage is an example of...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African caused quite a sensation when it was first published in 1789. The first authentic slave narrative, Equiano's...

The original question had to be edited down. I think that Equiano clearly makes the case that mental fortitude and toughness were the necessary requirements to endure the conditions of the Middle...

Before we can talk about how Equiano's work fits into the framework of a slave narrative, we need to talk about the structure and purpose of this genre of writing. The primary purpose of the slave...

Clearly, the "autobiography" of Olaudah Equiano is written by an educated and accomplished recorder in the style of eighteenth century writers, and, therefore, it appealed to European readers of...

In order to gain a wider understanding of this section of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, it is important to locate it within its...

The identity of both Olaudah Equiano himself and other blacks that he comes across is well worth exploring further. The narrator is unflinching and unswerving in the way that he describes the...

Equiano's work is one of the first slave autobiographies in American Literature. Coming out in the late 18th Century, its significance of being "written by himself" is one of the first statements...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, is a story of slavery from capture to freedom. A native of Benin, West Africa, Equiano’s memoir is not only a graphic depiction of the...

What we know of Olaudah Equiano's life is mainly derived from his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Published in 1789, it...

As a slave narrative, Equiano's Narrative was among the first of its kind, and like subsequent slave narratives, many of which adopted similar forms and narrative structures, its purpose was to...

These two texts are very interesting in the way that they examine both slaves and women as being treated as less than human in various ways, even though, arguably, it is possible to say that the...