_:vb6869105 "The reader cannot but judge of the irksomeness of this situation to a mind like mine, in being daily exposed to new hardships and impositions, after having seen many better days, and been as it were, in a state of freedom and plenty; added to which, every part of the world I had hitherto been in, seemed to me a paradise in comparison of the West Indies."@en . _:vb6869105 "1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 6, in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano\u200E[1], volume 1, London: for the author, page 243:"@en .