Equiano was a slave carried on a slave ship and eventually was purchased by Micheal Henry Pascal. Even though his slavery, he wrote a journal and created it into a narrative. In American Literature class, we were to read chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 3 seemed to have some important events in Equiano's life because he was obviously physically purchased by a person to work for him. Now, if we look into details then I believe that Equiano's slave journal was not as harsh as many others would be looked upon. Despite reading only two chapters into the narrative, it seems to me that he is not physically hurt quite often. Also in this chapter, Equiano gets a new name from his master which is Gustavus Vassa. I believe this name was given to him because Pascal wanted to disguise Equiano's real name, so that he would not remember his past and can focus solely on his future. It's hard to say the exact reason behind this name change, but Gustavus Vassa was a man of a Danish ruler. It also could be that his name change occured because other slaves doing the same job as him had a name change as well, the name change was probably a way for Equiano to forget his identity.
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