Olaudah Equiano
Module 1, Written Assignment 3 After you have written your answ
Olaudah Equiano
Module 1, Written Assignment 3 After you have written your answers, please delete the questions. Leaving the questions in the document will affect your Turnitin plagiarism score. I can discern that the questions are not plagiarism, but deleting them will help me to read your assignment better. Thanks.
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. Discuss the following concepts from chapter III:
• Describe Equiano’s friendship with Richard Baker, found at the end of chapter III on p. 385. • Write a three-four sentence description of how Equiano was introduced to the Christian faith.
• Comment on at least one other concept or experience that stands out to you from chapter III. 6. The excerpt from chapter VII describes how Equiano gained his freedom. • Summarize how Equiano was able to earn his freedom • Respond to Equiano’s expression of the joy he felt at being free by answering the following questions: Which image(s) best express his feeling to you? Were you moved by this passage? Answering the question in bold is necessary to receiving full credit for this prompt.
7. Explain one of the allusions from this passage – either his reference to Peter in prison or the reference to Elijah.