Date: 1789
"You stupify them with stripes, and think it necessary to keep them in a state of ignorance; and yet you assert that they are incapable of learning; that their minds are such a barren soil or moor, that culture would be lost on them; and that they come from a climate, where nature, though prodiga...
preview | full record— Equiano, Olaudah [Gustavus Vasa] (c. 1745-1797)