Cruelties of West Indian Slavery

From The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Equiano catalogs systematic brutalities he witnessed in the Caribbean—rape of enslaved women, mutilations, and the impossibility of legal redress—to indict the plantation system.
Chapter 5

Famous denunciation of the rape of African girls and the legal impotence of the enslaved: 'Are slaves more useful by being thus humbled to the condition of brutes, than they would be if suffered to enjoy the privileges of men?'

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