The Life Of Olaudah Equiano, ACK Gustavus Vassa, The African

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slave trade as almost like home although he thinks nothing of the kind. He insinuates that even though the slave life is terrifying the masters that can only portray how things are. Though Equiano trust in masters is sort lived for the fact that he is once again traded, which continues to happen throughout the book. In further reading Equiano’s journals you start to learn that towards the begging of his slave life he explains that it’s not the slave owners that impacted him but rather the fact of living as a slave which hurts him dearly. This idea can be backed with the following words from Equiano when he was united with his sister for the last time, “Our meeting affected all who saw us, and indeed I must acknowledge, in honor of those sable destroyers of human rights, that I never met with any ill treatment, or saw any offered to their slaves except tying them.” This statement shows how Equiano sees the slave trade to be. It seems as though Equiano observes the trade as a pitiless and immoral life for the slave, although he finds that this life can be lightened and helped with the presence of a pleasant master. Although he often observes that any master can have a cold heart, and I believe this comes out of him in his writings after his sister was torn from him for the final time, “Sharer of my joys and sorrows, happy should I ever esteemed myself to enc...