A well educated African American, who was forced into slavery by the name of Olaudah Equiano. Equiano opened many opportunities in the black communities of the British colonies, by writing a personal narrative of his life. He believed that, “a life without liberty is no life at all”. In believing in this Equiano did everything in his power to gain his freedom away from the wicked acts of slavery in southern America. Knowing that a well argument would be needed to construct the argument to show that slavery was unjust and very cruel to a human being.
The cruel and violent acts of that the British performed to the slaves in his narrative to show that slavery in America was crueler than any other place. Doing this he wrote a narrative to show the inhumane acts that the British brought upon the African slaves. Equiano said that he would call upon gods thunder, and his avenging power, to direct the strokes of death to me rather than permit me to be a slave, and be sold from lord to lord. (Equiano 73.) …show more content…
Equiano states that he would rather die than encounter the violence that the British would bring to him. But what would make a man to end his life?
Equiano tells about times when, “ a slaves is staked into the ground, then cut most shockingly, and how the ears were cut of bit by bit all because he had sexual relations with a white woman, a
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prostitute: as it were okay for a white man to rob a innocent girl of her virtue, but mostly on how heinous in a black man only to gratify a passion of nature. (Equiano 78) This such account just describes how unfair life was for African American
The cruel and violent acts of that the British performed to the slaves in his narrative to show that slavery in America was crueler than any other place. Doing this he wrote a narrative to show the inhumane acts that the British brought upon the African slaves. Equiano said that he would call upon gods thunder, and his avenging power, to direct the strokes of death to me rather than permit me to be a slave, and be sold from lord to lord. (Equiano 73.) …show more content…
Equiano states that he would rather die than encounter the violence that the British would bring to him. But what would make a man to end his life?
Equiano tells about times when, “ a slaves is staked into the ground, then cut most shockingly, and how the ears were cut of bit by bit all because he had sexual relations with a white woman, a
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prostitute: as it were okay for a white man to rob a innocent girl of her virtue, but mostly on how heinous in a black man only to gratify a passion of nature. (Equiano 78) This such account just describes how unfair life was for African American