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This 9 page paper discusses the brutality of slavery as it affects both slave and master. Examples are given from the slave narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Olauda Equiano. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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suffers physically, emotionally and spiritually, as much can be said for those people who perpetrated the crime. This idea is upheld in the memoirs of Olauda Equiano and Mary Rowlandson.
Olaudah Equiano, who would later be renamed Gustavus Vassa, was taken from his home in Nigeria when he was a young boy with the intent of selling him to a
Virginia planter in the West Indies. His merchant seaman master took it upon himself to educate Equiano, and later Miss Guerins actually sent Equiano to school in London. He lived
in the West Indies for a while, then was bought by a British naval officer, Captain Pascal. As one can see, Equiano was a man who had no permanent home.
In fact, it can be decided from a reading of his autobiography that the most at home he felt was on the sea. But why not? After all it was
the sea which provided him with enough money to finally secure his manumission. What is even more astonishing about his autobiography is the fact that a majority of the population
in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black man was capable of such complex and abstract thinking. The belief that the black man was
inferior didnt hold up in the light of his personal story. Equianos work showed the American slave owners and traders how hypocritical they were and on a larger scale, what
a joke the Constitution was with its grand words of all men are created equal. In this respect, then, Equiano is showing how slavery literally made brutes of the slaves,
but figuratively also made the slave owners worse brutes. In the very beginning of the book, Equiano states what his main reason is in writing the book. It occurred
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