In this episode, I provide some background information on the slave trade, a bit of information on Equiano himself, and some ideas you can look for in his work. This is a difficult topic to address, but my hope is that by listening to a brief summary of the horrors of the slave trade that you will better be able to appreciate Equiano's value in representing millions of people who would otherwise go unheard. I also address in this episode some of the contemporary ways people criticize slavery; my hope is that you will now better be equipped to understand how those criticisms/ideas are unambiguously wrong.

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"Equaino by Daniel Orme, Frontispiece of His Auotbiography." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaudah_Equiano#/media/File:Daniel_Orme,_W._Denton_-_Olaudah_Equiano_(Gustavus_Vassa),_1789.png. Accessed 23 Sept 2020.