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A paper which looks at selections from Equiano's autobiography, with reference to his perspectives on his native and adopted cultures, slavery, and ethical and moral issues.
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most notable aspects of Equianos account of his early life and his later transition to European culture is that he manages to convey, extremely effectively, the positive elements of his
home culture and the negative ones of Europeans whilst using strictly Westernised language and terminology.
For example, when he describes his upbringing (p749) and his country as a "nation of dancers, musicians and poets" this
does not, in the readers mind, contradict his description of tribal battles appropriate to a culture which also respects the warrior tradition. His account of the marking of "elders and
chiefs" (749) and the dances in which married men enact "feats of arms and the representation of a battle" are couched in terms which Europeans would find, to some extent,
familiar even though the practices themselves are different.
Similarly, his account of the whites treatment of female slaves (p769) delineates clearly the difference between the moral standards of the slavers and his
own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is clear that such was not the case
with older women. He also draws a clear distinction on grounds of ethnicity, with regard to what is considered acceptable in terms of sexual relations (p769) when he describes the
punishment meted out to a black man who patronised a white prostitute: "as if it were no crime in the whites to rob an innocent African girl of her virtue,
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