Final Chapter

 In the final chapter Equiano gives his final plea for England to end slavery. He summarizes his argument throughout the story about how slavery is economically harmful and humanely wrong. Equiano’s overall goal of the entire story is to recount the experiences of his life to show white men that slavery is bad so that they can help Equiano in the fight to abolish it. In the final chapter he continues this argument by focusing on his similarities with most white men in England, his religion, and what he thinks white people care about the most at the time, their pockets. He continues to show how he, as someone considered an uncivilized savage, is a devout Protestant Christian and is willing to become ordained to spread his faith and how slavery is harmful for the British economy. 

The series of letters in the last paragraph include a message to become ordained by a bishop so that Equiano can go back to Africa as a missionary, a letter to the Quakers, a letter to the Officers of the Navy about their plan to send African slaves back to Africa, and a petition to end slavery to the queen. Why he decided to add so many letters specifically at the end of the story I am not so sure, but my guess is that he wanted to show primary evidence of his story, so that nobody could question the story and say it was constructed wrong or not true. These letters that Equiano wrote wore to trustful sources like the church, or the Navy, or the Queen, so they can easily be checked to be true and people would have to believe the story was true.


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