Olaudah Eqiano was born in 1745 in the village of Essaka, which is now considered eastern Nigeria. When he was eleven he was kidnapped from his home and sold into the evil world of slavery.
The one part of his life that stuck out to me was the fact that he was an intelligent man who was able to make his way out of the environment of slavery. Olaudah was shipped over to the Americas after he was kidnapped. Over there, he worked for many different people. He would make tiny sums of money working and he would save every single penny that he received. …
