The argument, however, is continuous throughout the novel in the form of references to Providence that illustrate the extension of Equiano’s experience of Providence- and implied selection by God- to others. Through these references, Equiano creates an impression of one human race not divided by physical characteristics but instead united by their God. Equiano is not the only person to experience or acknowledge Providence; Equiano refers to Providence when relating a story involving an elderly enslaved man as well as numerous times when discussing the delivery of sailors, both free and enslaved alike, from physical danger (125,175, 229). Perhaps most strikingly, while attending a love-feast with presumably free European Londoners, Equiano remarks
