The Life of Olaudah Equiano

Does Olaudah Equiano’s first-hand account of the Middle Passage support or refute this claim? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

The essay “Forced African Migration to Colonial America” claims that the Middle Passage represents people’s “will to survive.”

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I think his text supports two premises: the will to survive and the will to be free. Both, survival and freedom, are not mutually exclusive but a part of each other.

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