First, there was a lot of trading or bartering going on with the white slave owners. They would use their slaves as a material item and not think of them as a person. They thought of them like a product or money. The trade involved the Americans, the Africans, and finally the West Indies. America mostly traded rum for slaves, Africa traded there own people (which would become slaves to whomever owned them) for sugar

and molasses with the West Indies. The West Indies would trade rum, molasses, or sugar to America for slaves. This created a "Triangular Trade." It was the most popular and resourceful method to get slaves, rum, or any other thing that a certain country wanted. It worked out for everybody trading except for the slaves. Equiano was traded for such items in the Narrative. The first person to "own" Equiano was a Quaker named Robert King. He did most of his business in the West Indies. Equiano was eventually traded for sugar cane and was forced to go on a slave ship. The conditions were horrible.

In Conclusion, you can see how badly the African American slaves were treated. This is exactly how Olaudah Equiano suffered. Millions of slaves could relate to Equiano's lifestyle. He was given no rights and didn't have

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