He went from Africa, to the Caribbean, to the Americas, to the West Indies, and also spent a great deal of his time out at sea. ... The book editor Robert Alison commented that, "His years of slavery in the West Indies and life as a free man in Europe and at sea had given him a dual identity and made him recognize that though he was culturally an Englishman, he had become a son of Africa" (Alison 4). ... After being at sea for about three years, Equiano comments that, "From the various scenes I had beheld on shipboard, I soon grew a stranger to terror of every kind, and was, in that respec...

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His schooling was interrupted by different times he was at sea. ... He took what were seemingly a couple of very pleasant cruises around the Mediterranean, and then a voyage back to the Caribbean, before in 1773 joining a voyage of exploration. ...

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