Reading The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | Alexandria
Read The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano. Challenging western philosophy, Equiano's radical notion that reason and morality transcend race shattered 18th-century assumptions about human consciousness. His assertion that enslaved peoples possessed equal capacity for complex thought revolutionized debates on personhood. Most surprising? His argument that oppression breeds deeper insights into justice.