Equiano Slave Narrative

Olaudah Equiano’s Slave Narrative is one that I will never get tired of reading. Although most critics go against the likelihood that he wrote the narrative himself, I believe wholeheartedly that he did. Just as they diminished the work of poet Phyliss Wheatley and attributed her writings to that of her adopted family, I believe Equiano was more than capable of putting this piece of work together on his own. I love this narrative so much because it does not focus so much on the downs of his experience as they truly were horrible, but it showed his perseverance to survive in a world that counted him out from the time of his abduction. His childlike descriptions to his elevated and strategic work as an adult prove his persistence to not fall into the statistic of a slave that becomes nothing more than that.  I will say that his story is nothing short of a miracle to have people aligned in his corner that helped him is a tremendous blessing. His outcome in the end where he was able to purchase his own freedom are rare.  There are so many accounts and stories of slaves who were promised their freedom, but it was never granted to them despite them having paid their master for it. The narrative of Equiano will always be a favorite of mine as it highlights the triumph of a man who was doomed a life of slavery until his death. I am readily available to read these outcomes before the travesty’s in stories such as Oronokoo.