Between the 17th and 18th centuries, North American colonies saw vast amounts of migrants from two groups: European colonists and African slaves. Various writers, European and African alike, detailed their journeys to the New World through literature. Two of these writers in particular, William Bradford, an English Separatist, and Olaudah Equiano, a slave, shared different accounts on their Atlantic crossing and reasons for migration, but also paralleled each other in several ways.
While not entirely…
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