... of slavery, going from master to master, he encountered a struggle to find his own identity. He went from Africa, to the Caribbean, to the Americas, to the West Indies, and also spent a great deal of his time out at sea. In each place that he went, Equiano encountered different cultures that had begun to change him and moved him away from his ... affect on him, particularly the English. The book editor Robert Alison commented that, "His years of slavery in the West Indies and life as a free man in Europe and at sea had given him a dual identity and made him recognize that though he was ...

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... able to learn to read and write which he did at school in London where he was sent by Pascal. His schooling was interrupted by different times he was at sea. This was in late 1750s when Britain was fighting the Seven Years War France. Equiano was very well-educated therefore a Quaker by the name Robert King had him trained as ... a gauger. He took what were seemingly a couple of very pleasant cruises around the Mediterranean, and then a voyage back to the Caribbean, before in 1773 joining a voyage of exploration. Equiano returned to London where two things of note occurred. First he bec...

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