Equiano's Life Story

After spending much of the seven years war hauling gunpowder on a british frigate, he was sold to several owners who regularly lied to him. Equiano only came around to an abolitionist position after converting to methodism and falling in with religious activists against the trade. The problem is that honor is, by definition, something that exists in the eyes of others. To be able to recover it, then a slave must necessarily adopt the rules and standards of the society that surrounds him.