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Narrative of the Life of Term Paper
Pages:5 (1696 words)
Subject:People
Topic:Olaudah Equiano
Document Type:Term Paper
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Why a]re the dearest friends and relations now... prevented from cheering the gloom of slavery with the small comfort of being together and mingling their sufferings and sorrows? Why are parents to lose their children, brothers their sisters, or husbands their wives? Surely this is a new refinement in cruelty, which, while it has no advantage to atone for it, thus aggravates distress, and adds fresh horrors even to the wretchedness of slavery... I have even known them gratify their brutal passion with females not ten years old; and these abominations some of them practised to such scandalous excess, that one of our captains discharged the mate and others on that account." (Vol. 1 p. 206)
On the other hand, there is a paradoxical problem that probably undermines that hope: awareness of how much worse slaves were treated earlier in their lives could have also allowed some of the morally inclined to credit themselves by the favorable comparison, and extinguish any sense of guilt or shame sprouting in their consciousness over slavery in principle. The more favorable the comparison, the easier it is to forgive one's own wrongdoings.
A b) if you had been Equiano's editor, what would you have suggested that the author do to make his account more convincing?
Had I been Equiano's editor, I might have suggested expanding on the concept that black Africans are human beings, despite the initial mistaken assumptions made by the first Europeans who encountered them. In this regard, Equiano could have incorporated his observations of slave owners impregnating their slaves expand on concept of same -- ...meaning human beings
French planter of his acquaintance, in the island of Martinico, who shewed him many mulattoes working in the fields like beasts of burden; and he told Mr. Tobin these were all the produce of his own -- ! And I myself have known similar instances. Pray, reader, are these sons and daughters of the French planter less his children by being begotten on a black woman?" (Vol 1 p.219)
Equiano could have devoted more attention to reinforcing the extent of cultural development of people considered "savages" by many in Europe and the Americas, to inspire genuine empathy. Finally, the author could have made more productive use of his Christian identity to highlight the abhorrent violation of some of the most fundamental established principles of Christianity…
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