1. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

2. The narrative describes
The horrors slaves faced on transatlantic voyages

3. The narrator was placed on the deck
Because his captors feared he might die below deck

4. Equiano tells us objectively that
He got seasick when he was on the ship

5. The power of this writing
is that it is a personal narrative

6. The main purpose of this writing was
To change public opinion about slavery

7. Equiano felt that the hardships suffered
Could not be separated from slave trade because captives will always resist and traders will always use force to control the slaves.

8. Equiano’s attitude?
Outrage

9. One of the details that Equiano did not emphasize
Was the chafing of the chains on the slaves skin

10. We know that not every sailor was cruel
Because he let Equiano look through the quadrant (the instrument they used to guide the ship).

11. The slaves fear that when they leave the ship
they will be eaten.

12. When the slaves try to get the extra fish,
They are caught and flogged (whipped).

13. “Inhabitants of the deep”
Are fish and other sea creatures

14. The slaves were so different from the captors that
They were to be eaten by these “ugly men”

15. The main idea of the last section
Is that the ship landed and the captives were sold into slavery

16. If Equiano was free from slavery,
He would have become a sailor or an abolitionist

17. The root word we studied was - vid-
Which means “to see”

18. Copious
Means plentiful or abundant

19. Pacify means to keep someone satisfied
The most likely opposite meaning would be to enrage.