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Please answer the following two questions after reading the above selection from VoF:
1. What picture of life in Africa does Equiano present?
2. What elements of slavery does he seem to think will most outrage his readers?
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What picture of life in Africa does Equiano present?
ReplyDeleteEquiano portrays life in Africa as a fun but hostile experience where children can have fun whenever there parents are gone and are trained in the arts of war to defend themselves
What elements of slavery does he seem to think will most outrage his readers?
The elements of slavery I believe that would most outrage his readers are the separation of families. I believe so because he did include an excerpt from one of the Africans that had been sold and taken away.
1. The picture of life in Africa that Equiano present is younger version as hisself as he was taught by his mother. Learning how to play with javelins. When the adults were gone the kids would keep watch for people trying to kidnap them as the other kids played.
ReplyDelete2. The elements of slavery that he thinks will most outrage his readers is that families were separated and was for sold. Parents tend to lose their kids, and siblings lost each other.
1. What picture of life in Africa does Equiano present?
ReplyDeleteEquiano describes life in Africa as this joyful hard working society where the people develop and grow within villages. They focused on agriculture and the arts of war; they had this peacefulness and ambitiousness to them.
2. What elements of slavery does he seem to think will most outrage his readers?
The elements that'll probably outrage the readers are when the white men tell the Africans once they get to the New World, they'll meet others like them and they said this as if it was good thing to have slaves. The whites belittled the Africans every chance they had: blacks chained together, had this off putting vibe to them, and just the fact the men told them they had to be put in forced labor, they also took families apart for their own lust and greed.
1. What picture of life in Africa does Equiano present?
ReplyDeleteOlaudah Equiano paints the life in Africa as a rudimentary childhood life, but dangerous. He used to play with the other neighborhood children, but also watch for assailants. Equine lived a normal life until his sister, and himself were captured when he was just 11 years old.
2. What elements of slavery does he seem to think will most outrage his readers?
ReplyDeleteThe elements of slavery that the seems will outrage his readers the most is when the assailants were happy, and smiling at the slaves when the first arrived at the new world. Long haired white men smiling at a bunch of black slaves because the finally their working location is baffling on its own
1. What picture of life in Africa does Equiano present?
ReplyDeleteEquiano presents a picture of carefree children playing around while their parents are away working but also cautious of who is watching.
2. What elements of slavery does he seem to think will most outrage his readers?
The elements of slavery I believe would most outraged his readers are the separation of families and the white people telling the Africans that when they arrive to the New World they wounded more of their kind.
1. What picture of life in Africa does Equiano present?
ReplyDeleteEquiano presents different tribes banding together for survival. They lived in fear of the enemy kidnapping and selling them.
2. What elements of slavery does he seem to think will most outrage his readers?
An element of slavery that the author thinks will most outrage his readers is families being separated. He believes taking a child from their family is the most cruel thing you could do.
1. Equiano presents a picture of carefree children in the wits of a dangerous childhood. While the adults were gone the kids would keep watch for people trying to kidnap them as the other kids played.
ReplyDelete2.The elements of slavery I believe that would most outrage his readers are the separation in families. The white men did this due to their desires and lust.
The life he painted in Africa was very family oriented and farm work based. He grew up learning agriculture and other kinds of labor. His life in Africa existed with a lot of labor that they were used to
ReplyDeleteThe elements of slavery that outraged him the most was the inhuman ways they were treated and how families got separated and how they were all basically shoved on a boat with no care
1A: Equiano presents a picture of a life in Africa as his mother thought him the art of agriculture and shooting. He was happy and when the adults were gone, the children would play and watch for kidnappers
ReplyDelete2B: The element of slavery that he thinks will most outrage readers is being tossed around the boat to see if he was “sound” to work. Also, how people were separated from their families regardless of age or relationship with another. Each and every individual were chained together without the thought of every being free
1. What picture of life in Africa does Equiano present?
ReplyDeleteMother was an big influence on him as a young boy. He was taught so much like agriculture, shooting, and throwing javelins. Him and kids would go out and watch out for people trying to come in.
2. What elements of slavery does he seem to think will most outrage his readers?
When he was roughed up on the boat to see is his sound would be able to let him work. People was chained together , the separating from families for sale had to be the worst part.
1. He presents how life was not easy then and how he had to learn to survive before being able to be a kid in their society.
ReplyDelete2. By families being separated and not having the opportunity to live their life but be in confined spaces and treated as animals or the unwanted
1. Equiano presents a quite contradictory childhood with on one side it was eventful hard working area that is family oriented and on the other side it was fearful and filled with questionable decisions.
ReplyDelete2. The separation in family because he came from an area where families are respected and for them to be separated and shown a lack of appreciation and terrible treatment, it was foreign to him
Equiano reminisced about his childhood where he learned basic skills like survival. He learned how to preform hunting and farming skills. He lived a pretty hard life dealing with many ordeals.
ReplyDeleteHe was most outrage with concept of kids being taken away from their parents. He came from a village with a very strong concept of family. So for family to be separated was one of the worst possible things one could do.
1. What picture of life in Africa does Equiano present?
ReplyDeleteEquiano describes life in Africa as this joyful hard working society where the people expand and grow within their cultures. They focused on agriculture and the arts of war; they had peace and drive to them.
2. What elements of slavery does he seem to think will most outrage his readers?
The elements that'll probably outrage the readers are when the white men tell the Africans once they get to the New World, they'll meet others like them and they said this as if it was good thing to have slaves. The whites belittled the Africans every chance so they could have a chance me with her shaves instead of finding somewhere new
What picture of life in Africa does Equiano present?
ReplyDeleteEquiano showed the readers about how his mother was a big part of his life. How he was trained in the arts of agriculture and war. Learning how to shoot and throw javelins every day. Also, when the parents would leave for the day to work, Equiano and his friends would climb up a tree and look to see if any assailant or kidnapper was coming.
2. What elements of slavery does he seem to think will most outrage his readers?
Elements of slavery that he seem to think would outrage the readers was when he was carried on board, immediately handled, and towed up to see if he was sound.
1. Equiano presents a life in Africa that is seems to be about family and working hard to provide for the ones that they love . But this sometimes leaves the young children, not working, to defend themselves from dangerous situations.
ReplyDelete2. To the readers the most outrageous parts of slavery to Equiano is the separation of family. For people who have been captured together have false hope of staying together when they are just ripped apart once they reach the new worlds coast.
1. Equiano’s reason for painting the picture of his life in africa was to show the drastic change he witnessed and experienced. He went from having fun and having a good life to being a slave and being forced to work.
ReplyDelete2. I think the part that Equiano wanted readers to be most angry about is the fact that families and people that came together were being sold separately and torn apart from each other.
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