Olaudah Equiano, Chapter 1

Access the Narrative of Olaudah Equiano in the Links column to the left.

 Read Chapter 1 and answer the following questions:

1.      Why is he writing his narrative?

2.      How does he seem to address stereotypes that whites might have of Africans?

3.       Describe the housing and furnishings of Equiano’s people.

4.       Agriculturally, how is Guinea worked by the “Eboe?”

5.      How do Equiano’s people create their calendar?

6.        What does he say about their practice of medicine?  About poison?

7.       In what ways does Equiano attempt to show similarities between his people and his English readers?

Due:  Friday, November 22