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Behind the Bastards
The hosts praised Equiano's autobiography as a fantastic, freely available work and quoted from it while highlighting its vivid depiction of his childhood and the slave trade.
His book is fantastic. He's got a book. Yeah, and you can find it online. It's free, right? We'll be quoting from it some here. A fascinating person. So Equiano had been born around 1745 in Igbo, part...
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The hosts praised Equiano's autobiography as a fantastic, freely available work and quoted from it while highlighting its vivid depiction of his childhood and the slave trade.
His book is fantastic. He's got a book. Yeah, and you can find it online. It's free, right? We'll be quoting from it some here. A fascinating person. So Equiano had been born around 1745 in Igbo, part of modern-day Nigeria... His father was a village elder... He later wrote that adultery for women was often punished by slavery or death... He later wrote... He wrote, quote, One day, as I was watching at the top of a tree in our yard, I saw one of those people come into the yard of our next neighbor... He wrote about his experiences as a child and later as a slave.