"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 prodigal of her bounties in a degree unknown to yourselves, has left man alone scant and unfinished; and incapable of enjoying the treasures she has poured out for him!"
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
11 entries in ESTC (1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794).<br>
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See <u>The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself.</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed and sold for the author, by T. Wilkins, 1789). &lt<a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/menu.html">Link to Documenting the American South Edition</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004837188.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004837188.0001.002">Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;