Much like that of Mary Rowlandson's writing, Olaudah Equiano's writing shares the qualities of the captivity narrative. The goals behind his writing are for excitement, pity, and admiration as he states in the beginning: "People generally thing those memoirs only worthy to be read or remembered which abound in great or striking events; those, in short, which in a high degree excite either admiration or pity" (748). This is essential, because his audience is Anglo-American and Euro-American people. Without their support in reading his work, nothing will be gained. The general European views of the slaves are: that they are not educated, that they are incapable of forming a coherent society, that they are inhuman, that they have no familial attachments, and that they do not have a religion. Equiano disproves most of these theories in his first chapter, where he says that his father was a chief and judge, and that his people do have an organized society with a complete political structure. Therefore it is easily seen that his goal in his writing is to improve the humanity of the Caucasians, and also to promote the interest of humanity by improving the lot of slaves and other Africans. In this paper, I will show how Oladuah Equiano's work, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, addresses the problems of racism and prejudice from a very personal perspective; and through his work he hopes to open the European people eyes to the unjust acts being committed upon the slaves.
             The first part of the story begins with his first captivity. It is seen that Equiano has no ill will towards his first master. In fact, he describes his master and family as being extremely similar to the people of his vicinity.
             This man had two wives and some children, and they all used me extremely well, and did all they could to comfort me; particularly the first wife, who was something like my mother. Al...