Equiano Vs Vassa

Equiano, Olaudah, Vassa, Gustavus and Foner, Eric."Voices of Freedom:From the Interesting
Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)." Give
Me Liberty! 4th ed. Vol. 1. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. 168. Print.

From Equiano's autobiography, we get his tough yet emotional experience of him as a slave during the eighteenth century. As a result, Equiano brings up this notion/description of a slave auction in the Caribbean. He calls white people to live up their professed belief in liberty. This argues an African American's individual assertiveness to stand up for their race and encourage the white race to become more accepting and open as a civilization. This helps with the argument of my essay by providing an example of how slavery is a lens …show more content…
4th ed. Vol. 1. New York: W.W Norton, 2004. 239.
Print.

The document From Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1173 and 1777), shows how slavery is a lens. It describes their struggles of earning civil rights and discusses their attempt to gain freedom through their efforts of abolition. Their abolition was an opportunity to assert their own claims to freedom as well as petition Massachusetts slaves to their legislature.

Frey, Sylvia R. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton UP, 1991. Print.

Water from The Rock provides examples of how slavery allowed America to progress as a successful civilization. From Frey's perception of slavery, she discusses it as a historical change. This is through changes in the colonial empire, political order, population, political gravity, economy, and patterns of labor use. These following examples, in turn, will help prove throughout my essay that slavery discontinued in the North, thus progressing our nation into becoming a better and more civilized nation.

Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll; the World the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon,

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