Answer:
It revealed how the lives of the slaves were precarious and miserable and showed how the slaves were exploited in an inhuman and cruel way.
Explanation:
Gustavus Vassa, baptized as Olaudah Equiano was a Calvinist sailor, abolitionist and Nigerian writer. He lived mainly in the British colonies of America and the United Kingdom. It played an important role in the English abolitionist movement in 1807.
Equiano is the son of one of the largest Nigerian ethnic groups, Igbo family (ibo). In childhood, at age 11, he was kidnapped by a trio of slave-hunters from an adversary tribe, becoming a slave. Transferred to Barbados, it was acquired by a British officer, who took him to Virginia (United States) and then to England, where he was mocked and renamed after the Swedish king, Gustavus Vassa. Equiano became a sailor and served as master during the Seven Years' War. It was later sold to a merchant. Equiano was enslaved until his twenty-first year, when in July 1766 he succeeded in buying his freedom for forty pounds.
As he knew the miserable, sad and hopeless life of the slaves, he published his autobiography in 1789, where he tells his story: before, during, and after slavery (reporting all the inhuman conditions in which slaves lived). This autobiography contributed to the creation of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.
