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The French philosopher of the Enlightenment Jean-Jacques Rousseau advocated individual liberty: Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

When Equiano purchases his freedom from his master, he recieves a formal certificate of freedom, otherwise known as his _______________________.

In 1774, he overcame personal setbacks when he arrived in America, carrying a letter from Benjamin Franklin who declared him to be “an ingenious worthy young man.”

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 have them do unto you?The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

By Nature’s self in white array’d,She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,And planted here the guardian shade,And sent soft waters murmuring by;   Thus quietly thy summer goes,   Thy days declining to repose. The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

In his letter to Ezra Stiles in which Franklin, near death, writes: “. . . it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. What is the question, the “it” to which he is referring?

He helped Thomas Paine be released from a French prison where he was imprisoned for protesting the execution of King Louis the XIV. 

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,