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It describes the crossing of the Atlantic in a dark, cramped slave ship, including the deaths of some enslaved men. The narrative follows his arrival in the West Indies and Virginia in 1754, his life aboard a British Royal Navy officer’s ship, and later his education in Great Britain, his conversion to Christianity, and continued struggle under slavery.","Equiano Taken for Slavery  \nEnglish Non Fiction  \nEquiano  \nTaken for Slavery  \nA biography By Carol Smith  \nImages by Arielle Ayotte.  \nEnglish United Kingdom  \nCopyright © 2020, SIL Cameroon  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[ ](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)[ ](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nImages by Arielle Ayotte, © 2020 SIL Cameroon. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.  \nThis book is part of the SIL Cameroon Branch Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education 5th year reading curriculum.  \nEquiano  \nTaken for Slavery  \nA biography  \nOlaudah Equiano 1745 – 1797   \nOne day 11-year old Equiano and his sister were in the house with the servants while their parents were out in the fields. The family lived in an Igbo village in the south-eastern part of Nigeria . Equiano saw 2 men and a woman climb over the compound wall so he and his sister tried to hide, but the men were quick and strong and soon tied them up and carried them away.  \nEquiano and his sister were made to walk for many days . Several times they were sold and stayed working in a compound for weeks, but they were then handed over to other men who marched them on and on . They crossed a large river and marched on to the coast where Equiano was sold to cruel men with white faces who shouted at him in words he didn’t understand.  \nAfter a few weeks Equiano and 250 other enslaved men were made to get into a small space inside a boat. There were two other men who spoke Igbo but mostly the men spoke other African languages . The space was dark and cramped and soon became very dirty and smelly. It was a horrible, frightening experience to be shut up inside the boat as it rocked and tossed across the Atlantic Ocean for weeks and weeks. Some of the men in the space died and their bodies were taken away.  \nEventually the boat landed in the West Indies . It felt good to see land, trees and the blue sky again . However soon Equiano and a few other men were put in another boat and shipped to Virginia in what was to become the USA. This was in 1754; he was bought by a lieutenant in the British Royal Navy who took him on his ship to be his personal slave . As well as doing all the work in his master’s cabin, he also learned how to sail a ship. During the war with France Equiano was expected to help the sailors by carrying gunpowder to the gun decks.  \nThe lieutenant was not a cruel man and after some years he sent Equiano to live with his sister-in-law in Great Britain so that he could learn to learn to speak English and to read and write . At this time he became a Christian and enjoyed church. 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