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Module 1 Written Assignment 3

Module 1 Written Assignment 3

Q Olaudah Equiano After you have written your answers, please delete the questions. Leaving the questions in the document will affect your Turnitin plagiarism score. 1. Briefly describe the culture in which Equiano lived before his capture; then summarize his capture and separation from his sister. 2. Describe Equiano’s reactions as he first encounters the slave ship and the white men who are enslaving them (p. 379). What are the emotions that he feels? What fears does he have? How does he describe the countenances of those who were enslaved as he was? 3. These few pages are, in some textbooks, subtitled “The Horrors of the Slave Ship.” List five “horrors” from pp. 380-382 that strike you as particularly dreadful. 4. Describe the procedure for selling the slaves describe on p. 383. (Do not forget this part of the question.) According to Equiano, what is the greatest horror of the selling of slaves? At the end of the chapter, he writes, “Surely, this is a new refinement in cruelty.” To what is he referring? 5. Describe Equiano's friendship with Richard Baker, found at the end of chapter III on p. 385. Comment on at least one other thing that stands out to you from chapter III. 6. The excerpt from chapter VII describes how Equiano gained his freedom. How did this come about? Who helped him? Respond to Equiano’s expression of the joy he felt at being free. Which images best express his feeling to you? Were you moved by this passage? 7. Explain one of the allusions from this passage - either his reference to Peter in prison or the reference to Elijah.

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1. Before Equiano was captured he lived in a culture where he was treated correctly and fairly. He was comfortable there. His mom was nice to him. His culture danced. They treated each other fairly. They were musicians. They have trained the art of war at an early age. Equiano's mom raised him. He was free, until two men and a woman captured him and his sister. The kidnappers made it so he and his sister could not acknowledge they were being taken. About a day after being captured, they separated him and his sister while they were asleep. Equiano and his sister were in one another arms when was forced to be separated. He and his sister were saddened and hurt by this.