Olauda

Olauda probably thought the world was “full of magic” because he was a young kid that was captured and taken from his family. Olauda had never saw a big boat before or the people that came to get him and his sister, which was the white man. During their voyage from Olauda’s native land to be sold and traded off like cattle and hogs, Olauda was able to see flying fish. He also noticed there were different animals in the water and he dreamed that he could trade places with them and be free as well. He never thought that the telescope could show him the things that he saw, abundance of water surrounding the slave boat. Everything was all new to him. Even though he was a child and frightened, he was strong. Also, he took everything in that was shown to him by the white man (nice slave trader). Olauda had to think that everything he was looking at was amazing to him for he had never been away from his homeland to have known about some of the things he saw.