though I was a great many days' journey from my father's house, yet these people spoke exactly the same language with us. This first master of mine, as I may call him, was a smith, and my principal employment was working his bellows, which were the same kind as I had seen in my vicinity. (751)
             Later, he is sold to a widow, where he is taken in as more of a companion to a young master than as a slave. Again he talks about the similarities between these people and his people, and how he "began to think he was to be adopted into the family" (754). Up to the point of where he is introduced to the European customs, he has nothing bad to say about slavery, and in no way makes any prejudice remarks. Yet at the point when he sees customs very different from his own, the prejudice starts to affect his speech, and the horrors of slavery come into play. For example, when he talks of the transition he states:
             The change I now experienced, was as painful as it was sudden and unexpected. It was a change indeed, from a state of bliss to a scene which is inexpressible by me, as it discovered to me an element I had never before beheld, and till then had no idea of, and wherein such instances of hardship and cruelty continually occurred, as I can never reflect on but with horror. (754)
             The second part of his three-part trip is the Middle Passage. It is known as such, because slaves are placed on ships to be transported from Africa to America for further trade. Most history books give this passage an inhumane and ghastly description. Equiano, in his own way, does the same.
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