Name Professor Course Date Analysis of Kidnapping and Enslavement by Olaudah Equiano The reading entails the works of Olaudah Equiano where he explains about the hardships he went through in his autobiography, "Kidnapping and Enslavement." Equiano decided to write his autobiography to share the tribulations that faced slaves and the evils attached to the whole business of the slave trade. He is astonished by the fact that fellow African people were the first to kidnap him and repeatedly sold before he was finally sold to the whites. It can be argued that the author aimed at showcasing the detriment of the slave trade with the intent of justifying the call for its abolishment. In the bid to...
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