... to Barbados and his fear that the European slavers would eat him. "Their complexions, differing so much from ours, their long hair and the language they spoke, which was different from any I had ever heard, united to confirm me in this belief. Indeed, such were the horrors of ... to permit audiences to fill this empty space with their own imagination and knowledge. In fact he defines poetry as: "The illumination of experience through language" (Collected Prose) Hayden uses the same technique we can find in Equiano's personal relation: "It would be needless to give a description of ... c...

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