Critique of Slavery and Christian Hypocrisy

From The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Equiano repeatedly indicts European slaveholders as 'nominal Christians' whose conduct contradicts their professed faith, a rhetorical cornerstone of abolitionist writing.
Chapter 2

The pointed apostrophe: 'O, ye nominal Christians! might not an African ask you, learned you this from your God, who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you?'

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Chapter 5

Extended exposure of West Indian planters' brutality, branding, mutilation, and rape of enslaved women.

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