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    The journey to America could take up to eight weeks. In "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚" Equiano says "the closeness of the place‚ and the heat of the climate‚ added to the number in the ship‚ which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself‚ almost suffocated us. This produced copious perspirations‚ so that the air soon

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    and incompatible in scholarly teachings. In “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚” a reader can easily witness the limitless possibilities of African-Americans‚ most notably

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    Two of the many selections that I have appointed were Olaudah Equiano‚ and Plymouth Plantation. The writers’ interest of oppression for Olaudah Equiano would simply have to be because they were slaves. The writer described how the voyage that they were forced upon was‚ and how their living quarters were. They also described in harsh detail what it meant to be galled from being harshly beaten with whips‚ chains‚ etc.”The shrieks of women‚ and the groans of the dying‚ rendered the whole a scene of

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    Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson. Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson were two puritan women whose writing portrayed them to have had strong religious beliefs. Both Mary Rowlandson and Anne Bradstreet religious puritan values allowed them to survive the harsh struggles that they endured in their live Mary Rowlandson main struggle was her captivity when the Indians tried to regain the lands that belonged to their tribe. On the other hand Bradstreet struggled with childhood diseases

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    Mary Rowlandson and Others A Comparison of Female Captivity Narratives Sarah Daugherty Collin College The first question to address is what captivity narratives are. “Captivity narratives are stories of people captured by "uncivilized" enemies. The narratives often include a theme of redemption by faith in the face of the threats and temptations of an alien way of life.” (Wikipedia 2011). Women such as Mary RowlandsonMary Jemison‚ and Hannah Duston we are all held captive by the natives

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    Mary White was born c. 1637 in Somersetshire‚ England. The family left England sometime before 1650‚ settled at Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and moved in 1653 to Lancaster‚ on the Massachusetts frontier. There‚ she married Reverend Joseph Rowlandson‚ the son of Thomas Rowlandson of Ipswich‚ Massachusetts‚ in 1656. Four children were born to the couple between 1658 and 1669‚ with their first daughter dying young.[3] Site of Rowlandson’s capture (Lancaster‚ Massachusetts) At sunrise

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    Mary Rowlandson who wrote A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson described her first person experience she had with Native Americans. She depicts the events as would be seen by an outside observer which become partly biased due to the emotions she felt during captivity. Her story takes place during King Philip’s War‚ a territorial battle between Native Americans and English settlers. Mary and her children were captured and taken as prisoners by Native Americans in order

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    the evils that were sent their way.. They were supposed to hope and pray for eternal refuge in God’s Kingdom‚ and yet they believe that God had predetermined their fate for them. These paradoxical Puritan patterns of thought may be what caused Mary Rowlandson to portray an inconsistent view of her Native captors in her Narrative. The credibility of this captivity narrative‚ written approximately two years following the actual capture and return of

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    During a raid‚ Mary Rowlandson‚ her six year old daughter‚ and her two older children were captured by New England Indians at the dawn of February 10‚ 1676 (Norton Anthology Literature by Women‚ 174). Rowlandson and her six year old daughter were both wounded‚ and separated from the older children. Although a mass of people were killed during this attack‚ Rowlandson’s husband survived due to the fact of his absence in town that day. Living in the Wampanoag women’s household‚ Rowlandson read her Bible

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    situation‚ and narrows the point of view to ensure the accurate representation of how living in that time period really was. Specifically‚ in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚ the slavery issue during the 1600s elicits a plethora of emotions through the firsthand accounts. In the excerpt‚ Olaudah details his capturing from his hometown and the several masters he lives with before being brought over to America. He captures the reader’s attention by using vivid imagery and specific

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