Mary Rowlandson Research Paper

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Mary Rowlandson, born in 1637 was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans during King’s Philip War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in Eboe, in what is now Nigeria. When he was about the age of 11, Equiano was kidnapped and sold to slave traders headed to the West Indies.
In 1676, when King Philip's War was about to end, a group of Nipmunk and Narragansett Indians attacked Lancaster, they burned the town and captured many of the settlers. Mary Rowlandson and her three children were among them and one of Rowlandson child died a week later. Rowlandson was kept a prisoner for three months. during those three months she was treated poorly. She used her skill in sewing and knitting as the Indians moved around in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to escape capture by the colonists. …show more content…
They were both kidnapped and taken far away from their hometown, separated, and sold to slave traders. Equiano is sold to the owner of a slave ship bound for the West Indies. Yet he witnesses the sale of slaves in the West Indies, but he was not purchased, and he stays with the Dutch ship, traveling from the West Indies to North America. There he is purchased and put to work on a Virginia plantation, doing light field work and household chores. Equiano stated in his narrative that domestic slaves in Virginia were treated cruelly and suffered punishments. He thought that the eyes of portraits followed him wherever he went, and that a clock could tell his master about anything Equiano did wrong. Shocked by this culture, Equiano tried washing his face in an attempt to change its
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