The Life Of William Bradford And Olaudah Equiano
The writings of both authors, William Bradford and Olaudah Equiano, are very important, because they show us first and accounts of their ideas and horrors. Bradford and Equiano both have many similarities. To begin with, both of them leave a country for a specific reason. Bradford leaves his country, England, "to escape religious prosecution" (William, 1) and Equiano leaves America to avoid discrimination and becoming a slave again (Elements, 56). Bradford left his country roots to traveled to Holland, before sailing to the New World and helping establish a Plymouth Colony for English Puritans (William, 1). According to Elements (56), when Equiano bought his freedom he left America to forget his slavery horrors that had happened there. Secondly, Bradford and Equiano married Englishwomen. Bradford marries twice. His first wife, Dorothy, felled from the Mayflower's deck and drowned during the voyage (Kelso, 2). B
"It was illegal for Nonconformists to worship publicly. On the other hand, William Bradford was not forced to go to America, he and the Nonconformists chose to go, to escape religious prosecution (William , 1). Bradford became a regular attender at puritan and separatist meetings (Kelso, 3). Lastly, "Equiano's autobiography is one of the first slave narratives by a black African to be published. Bradford's group organized as a separate Congregational church" (Elements, 26). Many accounts of the slavery were firsthand accounts used by abolitionists in the nineteenth century to fuel the crusade against slavery" (57). For example, their reason to go to America, the New World. "Equiano had been baptized as a youth in 1759, but Christian religion did not deeply influence his life until he had participated in an Artic expedition in search of the Northeast Passage in 1773 which nearly ended in disaster" (Olaudah, 1 & 2). Equiano had no choice, he was forced to go. Bradford's life and influences have been chronicled by many. He was held captive in West Africa for seven months and then sold to British slavers, who shipped him to Barbados and took him to Virginia". While having many similarities, Bradford and Equiano also had many differences. radford's second wife was Alice Carpenter Southworth, a widow (3). By sailing to the New World, they thought they could expect more religious toleration while still preserving their English heritage (2).
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