Olaudah Equiano and Phillis Wheatly
The middle passage is a demoniac journey that Africans experienced during the 1600’s, they were loaded onto a ship to be sent to the west indies. The historical authors and slaves Olaudah Equiano and Phillis Wheatly were both captured at a young age to be sold into slavery. Autobiographies from these young African’s Phillis Wheatly, “To the Right Honourable William Earl, of Partmonth” and Olaudah Equiano’s “The Life of Gustavus Vassa” are based on their experiences of slavery. Wheatly and Equiano have written devices on their views, experiences, and opinions of slavery.
Phillis Wheatley had a different view of slavery. Wheatley views were more toward God and Christianity. In the poem, “Being brought from …show more content…
I had all the opportunity I could wish for, to see the dreadful usage of the poor man; usage that reconciled me to my situation and made me Bless God for the hands into which I had fallen in.” Showing his gratitude and appreciation toward his religion (God). Equiano’s outlook isn’t so positive on slavery. “and my love of liberty, ever great, was strengthened by the mortifying circumstances of not daring to eat with freeborn children, although I was mostly their companion.” Equiano’s describing how the master and the children treated him as an animal.
Wheatley’s and Equiano’s view of slavery is different, Wheatley looks at slavery as a positive event and while Equiano looks at it as a horrifying one. Equiano’s writing is describing the life of African people/slaves during this time. Equiano’s experience of slavery is commonly described as other African people described it as well. Wheatley’s doesn’t talk about her culture in her poems, she is focused on God. From Wheatley’s poetry, you can cease that she was deeply religious. Although the two come from the same places they express themselves in various
The middle passage is a demoniac journey that Africans experienced during the 1600’s, they were loaded onto a ship to be sent to the west indies. The historical authors and slaves Olaudah Equiano and Phillis Wheatly were both captured at a young age to be sold into slavery. Autobiographies from these young African’s Phillis Wheatly, “To the Right Honourable William Earl, of Partmonth” and Olaudah Equiano’s “The Life of Gustavus Vassa” are based on their experiences of slavery. Wheatly and Equiano have written devices on their views, experiences, and opinions of slavery.
Phillis Wheatley had a different view of slavery. Wheatley views were more toward God and Christianity. In the poem, “Being brought from …show more content…
I had all the opportunity I could wish for, to see the dreadful usage of the poor man; usage that reconciled me to my situation and made me Bless God for the hands into which I had fallen in.” Showing his gratitude and appreciation toward his religion (God). Equiano’s outlook isn’t so positive on slavery. “and my love of liberty, ever great, was strengthened by the mortifying circumstances of not daring to eat with freeborn children, although I was mostly their companion.” Equiano’s describing how the master and the children treated him as an animal.
Wheatley’s and Equiano’s view of slavery is different, Wheatley looks at slavery as a positive event and while Equiano looks at it as a horrifying one. Equiano’s writing is describing the life of African people/slaves during this time. Equiano’s experience of slavery is commonly described as other African people described it as well. Wheatley’s doesn’t talk about her culture in her poems, she is focused on God. From Wheatley’s poetry, you can cease that she was deeply religious. Although the two come from the same places they express themselves in various