Working into European Society Olaudah Equiano

There are many spectacles of the world that share as illustrations of the hardship of mankind. The experiences and misfortunes of people lay the pathway for those who follow their example. One of the accounts describing such experiences is the book, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Equiano works his way through the levels of society and at the end of his life finds himself fully involved in European culture. Olaudah Equiano …

…as a seaman, a plantation worker, a Christian, and a master of adaptation of modern culture to fight for what he believes. Equiano attacks not only slavery but also racism. He sees that many malignancies have taken place during his lifetime and strives to implicate their wrongness for the generations to come. Only through his trials and tribulations expressed in his narrative does one understand the complexity of the cultures of his day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**