... cruel in America. Doing this, he wrote his personal narrative to show the inhumane acts that the British brought upon the African slaves. Equiano told of the cruel and violent acts that the British performed on the slaves in his narrative to show that slavery in America was crueler than anywhere else. ... Equiano said that he would "call upon God's thunder, and his avenging power, to direct the stroke of death to me, rather than permit me to be a slave, and be sold from lord to lord" (Equiano 73). Equiano ... Africans. He does this just to prove the idiocy of the British and make them ...

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