The depiction of these events may be considered crucial to the process of people beginning to understand the cruelty of this concept. In his work, Equiano portrayed the lives of enslaved people and devoted a significant part of the text to describe various types of abuse from which many slaves suffered. While scholars may debate about this particular fact as a reason to change one’s outlook on the author’s trustworthiness, it is important to take into account the influence of Equiano’s work as a whole. Some scholars that argue that Equiano was, in fact, born not in Africa but South Carolina extend their suspicion to other events that are described in the autobiography, which leads to people believing that the author was unreliable and untruthful in his depictions. However, the question of credibility of the facts introduced in his book may change one’s perception of Equiano’s narrative. Thus, the significance of his autobiography cannot be overstated. Every bit of information that he presented to his readers was seen as an illustration of a slave’s life (Jaros 17). The facts disclosed by Equiano are his work, including every important event of his life story from the second of his birth to the days of his life as a free man. Thus, his story and its contents had an immeasurable value to slaves as well as sympathizers and abolitionists. At the time when the memoir was published, Equiano’s words became the voice of people that suffered from being enslaved. The significance of Equiano’s autobiography only contributes to the fact that people believe that author’s information should be truthful. The verisimilitude of Equiano’s Narrative

This paper aims to investigate the possible outcomes of the fact that Equiano’s information of his place of birth is incorrect and discuss the effect it may have on people’s perceptions of large-slave events connected to slavery and the slave trade.

It is hard to assess the impact of this fact on the overall value of Equiano’s work and contribution to the abolition of slavery. However, the credibility of this author was undermined by various scholars, who started to argue that Equiano’s place of birth was not Africa, as the author wrote but South Carolina. Moreover, the impact of these writings and his narrative spread to the sphere of world literature as Equiano’s memoir was one of the few works of the 1800s that were written by persons of African descent (Carey). His famous autobiography can be considered to be one of the causes of the success of a British movement that wanted to end the slave trade. The life of Olaudah Equiano, otherwise known as Gustavus Vassa, is interesting for a number of reasons.

Equiano the interesting narrative