Wednesday, October 15, 2008
response to the slavery images and the Equiano accounts
Equiano equals Hitler in today's eyes... I say this because of the way he treated the slaves; it was much like how Hitler treated the Jews. Stacking bodies on top of bodies to make more room for more slaves on the ships. The goal was to get as many bodies(slaves) onto the ships headed back to land where they used them for labor. Even though many died because of starvation, suffocation and etc. Equiano still had the majority of them to still use, making him money. I view Equiano as a selfish and destructive man... using, beating, and sometimes killing slaves just to get where he wanted to be in life... (above everyone else and making a lot of money) I believe that he viewed the slaves as machines and not humans because he worked them so hard for so many hours, that many of them died. Although; that didn't stop him from returning to get more slaves and start the whole process all over again... just to get what he wanted was fine with him.
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