Message and social issue from the life of olaudah equiano story

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The Life of Olaudah Equiano

Message and social issue from the life of olaudah equiano story

can you tell me what is social issue from the life of olaudah equiano and what the message can we get from the story? thank you

Asked by Huang Li C #494957 on 1/19/2016 5:42 AM

Last updated by Aslan on 1/19/2016 6:18 AM

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Answered by Aslan on 1/19/2016 5:43 AM

Perhaps more than anything else, the work is centered around the destructiveness of the slave trade. Equiano's own life bears testament to how terribly it harms everyone involved. Africans, including children, were kidnapped from their homes and severed from their families. The bonds of mother and child, husband and wife, and brother and sister were destroyed. Slaves were given new names, their identities virtually erased. Any sense of history, culture, tradition, values, etc. were almost obliterated by the dominant society that kept them as chattel. They were subject to the most horrible punishments, delivered for capricious and unjust reasons. The chastity of female slaves was violated. Deleterious behavior resulted from the unnatural elevation of the white man over black. Furthermore, Christianity was perverted. Even white men were corrupted by the slave trade, since it pushed them towards their baser instincts and turned otherwise decent people into monsters. Though different masters show Equiano wildly varying degrees of cruelty or kindness, they are all complicit in its horrors, and hence does he endeavor through his work to show them the error of their ways.

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Answered by Huang Li C #494957 on 1/19/2016 6:11 AM

so what is the message and the social issue? can you tell me the detail because my lecture want me to presentation about the story

Answered by Aslan on 1/19/2016 6:12 AM

The message and the social issue is the ravages that slavery inflicts on both blacks and white society. It is explained in my answer.

Answered by Huang Li C #494957 on 1/19/2016 6:16 AM

sir sorry, so do you mean that the message is the same with social issue?

Answered by Aslan on 1/19/2016 6:18 AM

Your question is thematic in nature . Yes the message is the same as the social issue being: the ravages that slavery inflicts on both blacks and white society.

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