I need someone who know history and knows the life of Olaudah Equiano
1. How is his Equiano’s life in Nigeria different from what he experiences as a slave?
3. Does he seem to view his assimilation and acculturation as progress or as devolution? How do you view it?
4. How does Equiano achieve his freedom?
5. What does the process of his manumission say about his values?
6. Why doesn’t he escape?
7. Why save the money to purchase his freedom?
8. Why does he include the manumission certificate at the end of his narrative?
9. How does the inclusion of this document reflect on his conception of freedom?
10. Why does Equiano believe that free blacks faced a worse situation than slaves did?
11. What role does religion or spirituality play for Equiano? How does it change?
12. What role do names, and name changing, play in the book? How are names significant?
