His faith informs every word of his autobiography, from the ways in which he strives to present the tribe of his youth as not dissimilar in values ​​to the adopted Methodism to the charitable descriptions of the masters corrupt and heartless with whom he was forced to contend for his gratitude on his rise from estate owner to English gentleman. Although he is critical of the hypocrisy and amorality inherent in the slave trade, his prose is remarkably free of anger, but for some biblically derived reasons clearly intended to resonate with the rational Christians in his audience. Equiano's reference to "nominal Christians" can be seen by the modern reader only as an attempt to confirm his audience's suspicions that some members of certain Christian sects were not as personally committed to the Word of God as others, a view valid from any prospect. , not to mention that of a freedman. Equiano would have been crazy not to exploit the gap that still existed among European Christians at the time of The Interesting Narrative book.