Olaudah Equiano Slave Narrative vs. ADOS

[@anthovision7048]

I have been waiting for this day 😭💪🏾

[@jasonito23]

It took me a while. I moved out of the US to Mexico. I will be posting a video soon about being an "Expatriot."

[@anthovision7048]

In Ghana in the 17th and 18th century and European missionaries and traders would marry legaly african women and use the bi racial children as translators there is a book called " daughters of traders by pernille Ipsen"

[@mariejilberia5908]

Interesting indeed. I'm not surprised that he had no desire to go back to Africa. He was betrayed by his own people, and we have to keep in mind that he was very young, meaning he was impressionable. Not to mention the brutal things that he had witnessed in the ship. what is perplexing to me is that he had gone in the slave trade business, helping with the trafficking and had no issue with it as an adult. In my opinion, he was no better than those Africans who had kidnapped and sold him to the white men

[@jasonito23]

His excuse for trafficking was that he would treat his countrymen better than if someone else did it. As far as him not returning to Africa (Nigeria) is the fact that having written this narrative as an adult, if it was as great as portrayed, then why not return. I wish he would have written why he didn't return or why he didn't want to return. Like in the US, when immigrants brag about how great their country is and how bad the US is then we ask, well, when are you going back?.....then we get the real portrayal of the country they left behind.

[@mariejilberia5908]

@@jasonito23 lol@ the immigrants' comment. if your native land is so amazing, then why are you in this country you love to criticize? Once, this white coworker of mine asked why I had come to this country. My reply was short, straightforward and honest. I told him simply I came for a better life. He looked bit disappointed lol, I suppose he was expecting some long and sad story.

[@deanna22s]

Great review! I mirror your thoughts on Equiano. I am also very glad you support ADOS!

[@78binks]

It's funny u made a vid about this. I been pondering this subject the past few weeks. What makes us different in terms of wanting to destroy WS while everyone else wants to go along to get along? We have this spirit rebellion and survival no one else on the planet seems to display. Maybe it's from dwelling among these demons for so long we have a different perspective🤔

[@jasonito23]

@78binks: You are correct. We have been dwelling among the worst of the worst, therefore our perspective has to be different and these narratives point that out 100%. Douglass and Jacobs show how it was (is) growing up in the US. Equiano did not and there is a very distinct difference.

[@twilamohammed3426]

❤❤❤💯

[@twilamohammed3426]

Equiano willfully chose to please , admire,love, and emulating his enslavers. He had to have been a treacherous opportunist. Smdh

[@jasonito23]

When I read this book, it was the complete opposite of what I expected. It took me a long time to do this page because I wanted to make sense of it. I really believe that as a child, since his English slavemaster took him to England and treated him better than what he experienced on the Middle Passage, he mistook that as love. The experience on the Middle Passage may be a major part of his behavior. That is the one thing that slaves born in the Americas did not experience.

[@jasonito23]

But I HAVE TO give him the benefit of the doubt because I can't imagine being a slave. It's easy to say I would have been rebellious but experiencing the Middle Passage at age 11, I have no idea. I may have been the most tap dancingess entertainer on the plantation - lol.

[@twilamohammed3426]

@@jasonito23 yes,l believe the horrific journey to the Americas, devastated and traumatized young Equiano as well. I too ,can imagine, him as a terrorize child, clinging to any semblance any of humanity (no matter how small ) shown towards him. What I can't comphend is, the adult Equiano aligning himself with his enslavers, his aspiring to become one of them ( to be wht ) . His distain for his homeland ,rejection of his family lineage, spirituality , culture etc . Certainly , the semblance of humanity from one couldn't have erased a barbaric inhumanity Equiano experienced by the hands of the majority of whts he encountered. I think ,Equiano had major character flaws.

[@twilamohammed3426]

Your series, has inspired me to re-read Equiano's narrative ; l 1st read it in high school. I couldn't wrap my head around it then, lol. This time I'll read with a better perspective and a little empathy.