Question

In this manner we continued to undergo more hardships than I can now relate, hardships which are inseparable from this accursed trade.

Read excerpt from Aboard a Slave Ship above. In what point of view is Equiano writing?

Question 18 options:

2nd person


3rd person


1st person

Answer 1

The correct answer is alternative three.

In this excerpt from "Aboard a Slave Ship," the author narrates the events from a first-person point of view, since he uses words such as "I" and "we". As a result, the author intends to tell the circumstances and development of the story from the narrator's perception, judgement and thought.