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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

A work by Olaudah Equiano, first published in 1789

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Ideas of beauty in complexion are wholly relative, Since complexion changes with climate, this may help remove prejudice against Africans on account of their colour, Christians who sell enslaved families apart betray their own rule to do unto others as they would be done by …

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  • Connections

    Olaudah Equiano

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Key facts

First published
17892
Claims on korrents
81

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Ideas of beauty in complexion are wholly relative (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Since complexion changes with climate, this may help remove prejudice against Africans on account of their colour (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Christians who sell enslaved families apart betray their own rule to do unto others as they would be done by (opens korrents.com)1

  4. The slave trade hardens the people who deal in it; slave dealers are not born worse than other men (opens korrents.com)1

  5. The slave trade violates the first natural right of mankind, equality and independence (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Enslaving people strips them of half their virtue and teaches them fraud and cruelty, then blames them for dishonesty (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Olaudah Equiano

Sources

  1. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Q7742270 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)

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