Read the passages, and then write two to three sentences comparing the authors’ approaches and purposes. Cite specific evidence
from the texts to support your claims. 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.
–Letter from Ignatius Sancho
to Laurence Sterne
Thanks be to God, I was delivered from Grenada, and that horrid brutal slavery.—A gentleman coming to England, took me for his servant, and brought me away, where I soon found my situation become more agreeable. After coming to England, and seeing others write and read, I had a strong desire to learn . . .
–Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and
Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of
the Human Species,
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
Well i would have to say the first author was writing about how the character having an unlucky life. The second author was writing about how the character was going to place to place but also was unlucky. So what the two authors writing have in common both of the main characters were both unlucky. Hope you get an A on the test!!
Both Sancho and Cugoano want to show that despite their difficult experiences as enslaved people, they were able to persevere and become accomplished writers. Both writers invoke God to demonstrate their religious convictions. However, Cugoano is much more explicit about the horrors of slavery, calling it “horrid” and “brutal,” while Sancho says only that he was “unlucky.”
