The genre of "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African" remains an example of a slave narrative, as championed by slave trade abolitionists.
- Gustavus Vassa personally addressed this narrative to the Lords of the British Parliament to awaken their consciousness over the evils of slave trade.
- Olaudah's slave narrative was an autobiography that detailed the horrors of slave trade, in which Olaudah suffered. It also detailed the excessive oppression, inhumane cruelty, and unjustifiable extortion that were associated with this trade in human beings.
- Olaudah categorically stated that as a slave he had lost his cherished Ibo root and connections, including everything that he considered dear in his life.
Thus, Olaudah Equiano wrote this interesting narrative to urge the powers that be in Great Britain to discuss and work for the abolition of the evil slave trade, which decimated West Africa but was then considered necessary in the sugar plantations of the West Indies.
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