One thing is indisputable, the novel by Olaudah Equiano, aka Gustavus Vassa, played a decisive role in the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. His writings helped influence Europe into believing that the Atlantic slave trade was bad and bad. This also helped give human properties to dehumanized Africans. Although I admit that there are not many, if any, similarities between the writings of Anthony Benezet and those of Equiano, I still believe that he was not born in Africa for the reasons following: the inconsistencies between the information transmitted by Equiano himself, the problems of names and identity, and the obvious reasons for lying. Olaudah Equiano had very obvious reasons to lie about her roots in West Africa. This novel was published at the height of the debate over the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Equiano's lie would have completely changed the impact of the book. Since the debate at the time was about the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade and not the abolition of slavery, people were not interested in the harms of slavery, they were interested in the harms of the passage of the environment and of taking people out of their natural African identity. habitats. Therefore, without Equiano's description of his "ideal" African village in which he grew up and the evils of the Middle Passage that he experienced, his novel would have been useless in the era in which it was written (Carey 241). read successively the account of Anthony Benezet on Guinea and that of Olaudah Equiano on Guinea, you will not leave thinking that you have just read two identical passages. Although there are some similarities in the descriptions of location in Chapter 1 of Benezet and pages 43-44 of Equiano, this is to be expected as geography is not subjective.... .. middle of article ......o was obviously not opposed to slavery. Equaino's essay has many inconsistencies between the beginning of the story and the end. Equiano's story begins with his wonderful childhood in West Africa, but what few people seem to notice is that the people he describes are very nondescript. While later in the novel everyone is given names and specific facts about themselves, people from early childhood and dear to the author are not even given names. Everything about the author's childhood is vague, while everything about his adulthood is very clear, concise, and detailed (Carey 245). Another interesting fact to follow is that Equiano gets the dates of the ships on which he was brought from Africa to England wrong as well as most of the dates given during the first 10 years of his life, but he does not wrong on any other boat trip date. throughout her adult life (Carey 240).