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Comparing Eighteenth-Century Texts on Slavery Answers

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Read the excerpt from Thoughts and Sentiments.After coming to England, and seeing others write and read, I had a strong desire to learn, and getting what assistance I could, I applied myself to learn reading and writing, which soon became my recreation, pleasure, and delight; and when my master perceived that I could write some, he sent me to a proper school for that purpose to learn. Since, I have endeavoured to improve my mind in reading, and have sought to get all the intelligence I could, in my situation of life, towards the state of my brethren and countrymen in complexion, and of the miserable situation of those who are barbarously sold into captivity, and unlawfully held in slavery.Read the excerpt from Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African.The first part of my life was rather unlucky, as I was placed in a family who judged ignorance the best and only security for obedience.—A little reading and writing I got by unwearied application.—The latter part of my life has been—thro' God's blessing, truly fortunate, having spent it in the service of one of the best families in the kingdom.—My chief pleasure has been books.

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Both men use their past experiences to show readers that they persevered and became accomplished readers and writers.
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Both men use their personal histories to show readers the horrors and misery of being enslaved.
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Both men share their past experiences to show readers that they are much smarter than the average person.
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Both men share their personal stories to show readers that they are still having a very difficult time adjusting to European customs.
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belief
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Read the excerpt from Thoughts and Sentiments.It is therefore manifest, that something else ought yet to be done; and what is required, is evidently the incumbent duty of all men of enlightened understanding, and of every man that has any claim or affinity to the name of Christian, that the base treatment which the African Slaves undergo, ought to be abolished; and it is moreover evident, that the whole, or any part of that iniquitous traffic of slavery, can no where, or in any degree, be admitted, but among those who must eventually resign their own claim to any degree of sensibility and humanity, for that of barbarians.

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“is evidently the incumbent duty of all men of enlightened understanding”
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“and of every man that has any claim or affinity to the name of Christian”
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“iniquitous traffic of slavery, can no where, or in any degree, be admitted”
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“who must eventually resign their own claim to any degree of sensibility”
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Read the excerpt from Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African.’Tis at the service of the afflicted,—and a much greater matter: for, in serious truth, it casts a sad shade upon the world, that so great a part of it are, and have been so long, bound in chains of darkness, and in chains of misery.

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to describe slavery as just one of many different types of injustices in the world
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to explain that slavery is deeply rooted in society and impossible to fight
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to show that slavery is a terrible practice that has brought misery to too many people
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to argue that sooner or later people will do the right thing and abolish slavery

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