Rowlandson’s work displays this belief that God will test Puritan’s with times that they find difficult but he will always turn out to be their protector. She states that God “orders all things for his holy ends” The attack appears convenient to Rowlandson as though God himself had sent the attack as a test of her faith – the attack took place after the troops that were protecting the town had left to find necessities. Rowlandson’s “text has been studied most widely as Puritan autobiography, a testimonial of one woman’s faith and its rewards” Rowlandson’s only comfort during her narrative was the obtained Bible from the Indian and the hope it brought to her was a “wonderful mercy of God to me in those afflictions” (page 263) Wheatley
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Wheatley radiates an idea from her poem that she was too fearful of her owner to go for a more authentic version of events, suggested by the line “twas mercy” (page 764). The poem mimics the way that most white people would have felt about slavery at the time which hints to a modern reader that her literature was actually used as a survival tool in order to keep her owner content; consequently not receiving any brutal punishments that are envisioned in other slave narratives such as Equiano who saw slaves being “cut” and “mangled” and also in narratives such as Rowlandson who similarly looks to religion as a saviour. Rowlandson, the wife of a minister, describes the torture that slaves went through in being captured such as “split open his bowels”. Rowlandson uses her narrative to give a brutal account to her readers, who were white in majority, so that the truth could be visualised and possibly cause a revolution. However not all of Rowlandson’s narrative is authentic, she includes bible references as well as quotes which would have been edited in much later than the time at which it was written: “By the rivers of Babylon… remembered Zion” (page
Wheatley radiates an idea from her poem that she was too fearful of her owner to go for a more authentic version of events, suggested by the line “twas mercy” (page 764). The poem mimics the way that most white people would have felt about slavery at the time which hints to a modern reader that her literature was actually used as a survival tool in order to keep her owner content; consequently not receiving any brutal punishments that are envisioned in other slave narratives such as Equiano who saw slaves being “cut” and “mangled” and also in narratives such as Rowlandson who similarly looks to religion as a saviour. Rowlandson, the wife of a minister, describes the torture that slaves went through in being captured such as “split open his bowels”. Rowlandson uses her narrative to give a brutal account to her readers, who were white in majority, so that the truth could be visualised and possibly cause a revolution. However not all of Rowlandson’s narrative is authentic, she includes bible references as well as quotes which would have been edited in much later than the time at which it was written: “By the rivers of Babylon… remembered Zion” (page