James Stout

And so they spend some time on voyages together, and he's still kind of being treated more like a servant.

They're engaged in, like, pirates attacks several times.

Like, he helps defend the ship in several desperate battles.

They travel the oceans of the world.

And Olaudah says that at this time, he feels a growing loyalty and affection for Pascal, who he believes has been so kind to him because he plans to free him one day, right?

So he's really, like,

as loyal to this dude as he can because he thinks that, like, I found a good one, right?

Unfortunately, he has not.

That is not the case.

In an article for documenting the American South on Equiano, Jen Williamson summarizes, he is shocked at an abrupt betrayal during a layover in England when Pascal has him roughly seized and forced into a barge.

Pascal sells Equiano to Captain James Duran, the captain of a ship bound for the West Indies.

Dazed by his sudden change in fortunes, Equiano argues with Captain Duran that Pascal could not sell him to me, nor to anyone else.

I have served him many years, and he has taken all my wages and prize money.

I have been baptized, and by the laws of the land, no man has a right to sell me.

After Duran tells Equiano he talks too much English and threatens to subdue him, Equiano begins service under a new master, for he is too well convinced of his power over me to doubt what he said.

Right?

So he's like, but, like, I did all the stuff I'm supposed to do.

I feel like I'm English now.

And he's like, if you keep talking English, I'm going to beat the shit out of you.

Right?