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The life of Olaudah Equiano
Your teacher wants you to read the true story of Olaudah Equiano, so that you can fully
understand was the Triangle Trade was like.
Then answer the questions your teacher asked you to test your comprehension.
Capture
Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in the African country that is now Nigeria. The adults
worked in the fields during the day leaving the children in the village. Older children were
often given the task of acting as lookouts and if they saw any traders approaching the village
they would let out a loud cry: AIEEEEEEEYAH.
Olaudah and his sister were in the hut when they heard the cry. Looking out of the door,
Olaudah saw the traders hurrying into the village and knew that there was no time for them
to reach the safety of the trees. Both Olaudah and his sister were roughly seized and their
mouths were stopped with dirty cloths to stop them from crying out.
After a few days they were taken to a larger African settlement and here Olaudah and his
sister were separated and sold to different families. During the seven months that Olaudah
spent in slavery in Africa he was mostly treated kindly, in some cases as part of the family,
and was given fairly simple chores to do at home. In Africa slaves were respected and
their status as part of the family was valued. Olaudah was soon to discover that slavery in
America was very different.
The crossing
Eventually he was sold to another trader. Olaudah was very frightened and had to be
dragged nearer to the sea. He then noticed a very big ‘house’ on the moving land. The
people around the big house looked very strange. They had long hair, white skin and spoke a
strange language. Olaudah thought that they were devils.
Their transport to the Americas on board the slave ship - known as the Middle Passage
because it was the middle leg of the Triangular Trade route used by the European merchants
– was terrible.
The ship contained hundreds of enslaved people, like Olaudah, tightly packed in horrific
conditions for the journey to their new “home.”
Because of his youth Olaudah was not chained like the men and women . And he was so ill
from the smell and the conditions in the hold that he was allowed to sit on deck during the
day to breathe fresh air.
The indies
Eventually the ship reached the West Indies and although many slaves had died on the
crossing many remained alive. Merchants and plantation owners came aboard the ship to look at the slaves and Olaudah was taken to a big house and sold to a sea Captain who
allowed the sailors on board the ship to teach him to read and to write. Although he was
very well treated by the merchant, Olaudah longed to be free and to return to his homeland.
He began buying fruit before sailing and selling it on to the sailors for a small profit.
Eventually he saved enough to buy his freedom.
As a free man, he settled in England. He met Granville Sharp and the other members of the
Society for the Abolition of Slavery. He made public speeches, giving a first-hand account
of the treatment of slaves during capture, sea passage and slavery. Slavery was abolished in
Britain in 1807 and throughout the Empire in 1833. Olaudah eventually traveled back to
Nigeria to find his homeland, but there was no trace of his village or his family.
Adapted from the Interesting Narrative and other writings

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J'ai déjà fait les questions 1,2,4(ab),5(ab),6(a),7,8,9,10

Il ne me reste que ces questions :

3)  OLAUDAH'S LIFE

Fill in the timline with the 6 most important events in Olaudah's life

-I-----I------I------I--------------------------------------------->  ( les I sont les barres verticales et les "-" sont la barre horizontale

( to be continued )

6) "Older children were often given the task of acting as lookouts"

a) Is this form active or passive ? This is passive form

b) Turn the sentence into the other form or voice : ........ (pas réussi)

c) Find 8 similar forms in the text and write them down (pas trouver une seul)

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