1. How would you describe the economic transactions described in the document? To what extent were they conducted between equal parties? Who, if anyone, held the upper hand in these dealings?

2.How might an African merchant have described the same transaction? How might Equiano describe it?

3.Notice the outcome of Phillips voyage to Barbados in the last two paragraphs. What does this tell you about European preferences for slaves, about the middle passage, and about the profitability of the enterprise?

Source: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)