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How does Christianity impact Equiano’s experience this time around in the West Indies?
Equiano elects to return to the West Indies, but is troubled this time by his lack of access to the spiritual life he had started in London. On the Central American shore where he and Dr. Irving were setting up their plantation, there were no churches, and they were living amongst the Musquito tribes, whom Equiano describes as heathenous. Although the Musquito are in fact kinder and more just than many of the baptized white Christians that Equiano knows, he is still restless at the lack of opportunity to ‘improve’ his soul, and the potential exposure to sinful behavior. Equiano’s growing...
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