Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

What were Equiano's impression of the white men on the ship and their treatment of the slaves?

Equiano's early impressions of the white men were very horrific in nature, he initially felt as if he had arrived into the world possessed by bad spirits and was about to be killed, the long hairs and different language that the white men spoke, conformed to this ghastly feeling. At one moment, he wanted to trade (if he could) 10 thousand kingdoms (if he had them) in exchange for his current condition (of a captured slave) into even that of the meanest ...