Considering Writing

Please take a moment to explore each of this week’s readings, but in particular consider Olaudah Equiano’s account. What does Equiano say about his life after slavery? How does he account for the challenges of his freedom and the challenges faced by others who might find manumission?

Your response should be approximately 300 words.

A Little Ice Age [review by John Lanchester],  

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/how-the-little-ice

age-changed-history 

• East India Company, Letters Patent of William III,  

https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item102770.html 

• John Wesley, Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774)  

https://docsouth.unc.edu/church/wesley/wesley.html 

• Stowage of the British Slave Ship “Brookes”  

http://webhost.lclark.edu/campion/hist222/1-brookesdiag.jpg 

• Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,  

Chapters 1, 4, & 5  

https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/equiano1.html