Compare Equiano to Venture Smith. Both are Africans brought over to America to be slaves. Do they share the same views? How do they differ?

Equiano's life story is vastly different from Venture's for many reasons. Their views of life and slavery differed the most. Venture focused his story on capitalism. He got sucked in to the typical American Dream that comes up a lot throughout America's history. He centered his decisions around money while Equiano's decisions were about moral growth. Equiano used feeling and emotion in his writing instead of cold hard facts as Venture did.

I could tell from the very beginning that the stories would be greatly different. To begin with, Venture told his story to a white man who then published it into writing. By doing so, we most likely lost a lot of detail and things which the white man would have taken out just because he didn't like it. It was censored. His story starts off with Venture being referred to in third person and says that this is an account of hist story. Equiano's beginning was much different. It contained emotion and opinion right from the very start. Through Equiano's words, we are able to get a sense of his vernacular rather than a censorship.

Their takes on slavery differed greatly as well. Venture just said this happened, then this occurred, bam bam bam, these are the facts. He simply stated what took place without detail. Equiano went deep into detail. He showed the horrors of slavery saying what he smelled, felt, and saw. his explanation of the ship ride over almost made you feel what he felt.

On a side not, Equiano talked a lot more about his tribe. He explained the tribe's culture and rituals. He did this to show us that they were human too just as the white men were. It showed a contrast between his old lifestyle and his new life where he isn't treated as a human.