The Desire for Freedom Mary prince had suffered from an unfortunate life, she was worked to the bone and kept like an animal, but even in her worse of times she never gave up hope. Olaudah Equiano had also suffered from slavery, but in his case it was a more fortunate one, he was more of a witness of such crimes against slaves, during the middle passage Equiano speaks of the horrors he saw, the smells, the ear wrenching cries and the overall atmosphere of the ship’s hull, where Mary herself was the one taking on the punishment for even the smallest infractions from her slave masters. When it comes to both of their stories, they both decided that they were stories that should be told, not just so they could tell it, but so people knew of such ways other …show more content…
Even though the world is sometimes cruel, they made it clear that one should never give up hope. Both Mary Prince and Equiano spoke of their early days as happy and care free, Although Mary was already a slave as a child, she still was content in that she knew no better, it wasn’t until later in life that she was brought to face the realities of what she was. Equiano’s family was a prominent one in their village and he himself had slaves, but treated them like family. Equiano then stolen from his home as a child and then forced into slavery; it was then that he learned truly what slavery was.
Equiano was lucky in the sense that he was able to obtain an education through his master who sent him to England for just that reason; Mary was only able to obtain small amounts of education when she would walk