Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - History Other Slave Slave Olaudah Equiano was kiddnapped from his Afrincan village at the age of eleven, shipped through the “Middle Passage” of the Atlantic Ocean, and brought to the West indies and sold to a Virginia plantert. He was later bought by British naval Officer, Captain Pascal, as a present for hios cousins in London. After ten years of enslavement throughout the North American continent, where he assisted his mercahnt slave master and worked as a seasman, Equiano bought his freedom. At tyhe age of forty four he wrote and published ahis autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Wriiten by Himself, which he registered at Stationer’s Hall, London, in 1789. More then two centuries later, this work is reconized not only as one of the first works written in English by a former slave, but perhaps more important as the paradigm of a slave narrative. Equiano recalls his childhood in Essaka(an Igbo village formely in northeast Nigeria), where he was adorned in the tradition of the “greatest warriors.” He is unique in his recollection of traditional African life before the advent of the European slave trade. Equally significant is Equiano’s life on the high seas, which included not only travels throughout the Americans, Turkey and the Mediterranean; but also participating inmajor naval battles during the French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War), as well as in the search for a northwest passage led by Phipps expedition of 1772-1773. Equiano also records his central role, along the Granville Sharpe, in the British Abolishionist Movement. As a major voice in thgis movement, Equiano pettitoned the Queen of England in 1788. He was appointed to expeditioin to settle London’s poor Black in Sierra Leone, a British colony on the west coast of Africa. Sadly, he did not complete the journey back to his native land. Bibliography: Word Count: 309
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