... his countrymen, who existed in the same, if not a worse lifestyle, did in fact chose death to escape the brutally barbaric and torturous treatment that was the life of a slave. The Interesting Narrative expands upon Equiano's experiences and walks the reader through a humbling reality of one man ... not all be considered ignorant if we were forced into a new culture, with a foreign language and different customs? Equiano speaks of this treatment and slavery as an unmerciful, unjust and unwise act. The total disregard for human lives that is shown through slavery is inexcusable; it illust...

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... famish'd; so inhuman are the Blacks to one another," this production causes the Africans to change into a culture that treats each other like products which creates a slave nature of inhumane commodity. "These Arabs also have many Berber horses, which they trade, and take to the Land of the Blacks, exchanging them with the rulers for slaves." There is ... sold in America, the same motive ought to prevail with their masters to use them well, that they may live the longer, and do them more service".20 The treatment towards Africans in American slaver was better than the struggle of povert...

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