comparing eighteenth-century texts on slavery
subodh
this lord of hosts, in his great providence, and in great mercy to me, made a way for my deliverance from grenada.—being in this dreadful captivity and horrible slavery, without any hope of deliverance, for about eight or nine months, beholding the most dreadful scenes of misery and cruelty, and seeing my miserable companions often cruelly lashed, and as it were cut to pieces, for the most trifling faults; this made me often tremble and weep, but i escaped better than many of them. for eating a piece of sugarcane, some were cruelly lashed, or struck over the face to knock their teeth out. …
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, and getting what assistance i could, i applied myself to learn reading and writing, which soon became my recreation, pleasure, and delight; and when my master perceived that i could write some, he sent me to a proper school for that purpose to learn. since, i have endeavoured to improve my mind in reading, and have sought to get all the intelligence i could, in my situation of life, towards the state of my brethren and countrymen in complexion, and of the miserable situation of those who are barbarously sold into captivity, and unlawfully held in slavery.
\some pretend that the africans, in general, are a set of poor, ignorant, dispersed, unsociable people; and that they think it no crime to sell one another, and even their own wives and children; therefore they bring them away to a situation where many of them may arrive to a better state than ever they could obtain in their own native country.\ this specious pretence is without any shadow of justice and truth, and, if the argument was even true, it could afford no just and warrantable matter for any society of men to hold slaves. but the argument is false; there can be no ignorance, dispersion, or unsociableness so found among them, which can be made better by bringing them away to a state of a degree equal to that of a cow or a horse.
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according to the text, what event greatly improved cugoano’s life?
returning home to africa going to one of the british witnessing the end of leaving grenada to work
colonies in north america slavery in grenada as a servant in england

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comparing eighteenth-century texts on slavery
subodh
this lord of hosts, in his great providence, and in great mercy to me, made a way for my deliverance from grenada.—being in this dreadful captivity and horrible slavery, without any hope of deliverance, for about eight or nine months, beholding the most dreadful scenes of misery and cruelty, and seeing my miserable companions often cruelly lashed, and as it were cut to pieces, for the most trifling faults; this made me often tremble and weep, but i escaped better than many of them. for eating a piece of sugarcane, some were cruelly lashed, or struck over the face to knock their teeth out. …
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, and getting what assistance i could, i applied myself to learn reading and writing, which soon became my recreation, pleasure, and delight; and when my master perceived that i could write some, he sent me to a proper school for that purpose to learn. since, i have endeavoured to improve my mind in reading, and have sought to get all the intelligence i could, in my situation of life, towards the state of my brethren and countrymen in complexion, and of the miserable situation of those who are barbarously sold into captivity, and unlawfully held in slavery.
\some pretend that the africans, in general, are a set of poor, ignorant, dispersed, unsociable people; and that they think it no crime to sell one another, and even their own wives and children; therefore they bring them away to a situation where many of them may arrive to a better state than ever they could obtain in their own native country.\ this specious pretence is without any shadow of justice and truth, and, if the argument was even true, it could afford no just and warrantable matter for any society of men to hold slaves. but the argument is false; there can be no ignorance, dispersion, or unsociableness so found among them, which can be made better by bringing them away to a state of a degree equal to that of a cow or a horse.
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according to the text, what event greatly improved cugoano’s life?
returning home to africa 	 going to one of the british 	 witnessing the end of 	 leaving grenada to work
																 colonies in north america 	 slavery in grenada 	 as a servant in england

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# Answer:
D. leaving Grenada to work as a servant in England
# Brief Explanations:
The text says "A gentleman coming to England, took me for his servant, and brought me away, where I soon found my situation become more agreeable" and later he got to learn reading/writing. Other options: no mention of returning to Africa (A); no info on British colonies in NA (B); text doesn't say slavery ended in Grenada (C). So leaving Grenada to be a servant in England improved his life.

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