What does this detail suggest about Equiano's audience and purpose: "...might not an African ask you, learned you this from your God, who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you?"

This detail suggests that Olaudah Equiano's audience were the Europeans who indulged in slave trade. He asks this question to appeal to their conscience based on their Christian beliefs.

Explanation:

Olaudah Equiano was a notable African of Igbo descent who was sold from Africa's West Coast to the Caribbeans and later to London. He wrote several accounts of his experience and emotions as a slave as well as the ill-treatment meted on him and his fellow slaves by the Europeans. After enumerating the several hardships faced by the African slaves, he asks the question above.

From the wordings of the question, a reader can infer that it was directed to his captors. They believed in Christianity and the Bible but were apparently not heeding to the requirements of their God who instructs that they do to others just as they would want to be treated.

he is writing to white Christians with the power to stop the slave trade

Explanation:

the african society basically suffered the consequences of colonization and apartheid directly attacking the black people, first, during the colonialism and its main idea which which "white people" had better rights, affecting   them principally in the right to establish black people in their territories, access to quality education and health services and took away any civil right even to the black people to feel they have the same opportunities as the settlers.

they both lost a woman they loved named lenore

they believed they interracted with a talking raven

they became orphaned at a young age.