How hypocritical was equiano? Measured up against John Newton?
Did greed motivate change in slavery from menial servanthood (serf-like) to mechansitic, working of the slaves to death?
How genious was eqiano's pragmatism? Did he play the game to well?
Does Hochschild's Book suffer from an undue bias agianst religion?
Did riches (stand-in for greed) and or the persuit of a comfortable lifestyle make people more willing to suspend their morals and participate by proxy in slave trade?
Was Equiano "lucky" as Hochschild says? how mught Hochschils be using the word ironically?
Is the chapter on Equiano well placed? Does it serve as a good counterweight story to express what a slave went through? Would i have been more effective to tell more horrid stories of slave ship conditions in a chapter after J.Newton
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