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Olaudah Equianos text is important for many reasons. One of these reasons is that

Thomas Paine

Of Joel Barlow’s epic poem “The Vision of Columbus,” George Washington reportedly said,

It will be very agreeable to me; indeed, nothing has ever hurt me so much, and affected me with such keen sensations, as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son; and not only deserted, but to find him taking up arms against me in a cause wherein my good fame, fortune, and life were all at stake. You conceived, you say, that your duty to your king and regard for your country required this. I ought not to blame you for differing in sentiment with me in public affairs. We are men, all subject to errors.The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

I shudder when I recollect that the birds had already picked out his eyes, his cheek bones were bare; his arms had been attacked in several places, and his body seemed covered with a multitude of wounds. From the edges of the hollow sockets and from the lacerations with which he was disfgured, the blood slowly dropped, and tinged the ground beneath. No sooner were the birds flown, than swarms of insects covered the whole body of this unfortunate wretch, eager to feed on his mangled Àesh and to drink his blood. The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

This writer had “a “natural gift for pamphelteering and rebellion” and was “appropriately born into an age of rebellion.” He once asserted, “My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”  This writer is none other than

In his letter to Thomas Paine regarding The Age of Reason, Benjamin Franklin

Ye powers! who formed these wretched tribes, relate, What had they done, to merit such a fate! Why were they brought from Eboe’s sultry waste, T o see that plenty which they must not taste— Food, which they cannot buy, and dare not steal; Yams and potatoes²many a scanty meal!² The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

Just as the Puritans before them, the writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment focused much of their attention on the next life (what happens in the after-life).

Which of the following statement is not true about Benjamin Franklin: