Today we read excerpts from the autobiography of former Slave Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano). If you wish to read the full autobiography, you can find it here…
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/equiano/equiano_contents.html
You can find out more about Olaudah Equiano here…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaudah_Equiano
How do you feel about the excerpts we read? Were you at all shocked by the brutality Equiano describes? How do you think the experience of slavery has impacted the lives of Latin Americans of African descent over the generations?
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