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Life of Olaudah Equiano
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Quote #1
“One day, when all our people were gone to to their works as usual and only I and my dear sister were left to mind the house, two men and a women got over our walls, and in a moment seized us both, and without giving us time to cry out or make resistance they stopped our mouths and ran off with us into the nearest wood.” (58) -
Quote #2
“The next day proved a day of greater sorrow than I had yet experienced, for my sister and I were separated while we lay clasped in each other’s arms.”(59) -
Quote #3
“The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship which was then riding at anchor and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment which was soon converted into terror when I was carried on board.” (60) -
Quote #4
“I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits and that they were going to kill me. Their complexions too differing so much from ours, their long hair and the language they spoke united to confirm me in this belief.” (60) -
Quote #5
“When I looked round the ship too and saw a large furnace or copper boiling and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer doubted my fate; and quite overpowered with horror and anguish, I fell motionless on the deck and fainted.” (60) -
Quote #6
“One day they had taken a number of fishes, and when they had killed and satisfied themselves with as many they saw fit, to our astonishment who were on the deck, rather than give any of them to us to eat as we expected, they tossed the remaining fish into the sea again, although we begged and prayed for some as well as we could.” (63-64)
