of growth and empowerment of one self and their house hold. In separating the family unit a lot was lost, a lot of history, a lot of kinship, yet most of all the structural of a family unit. "Why are parents to lose their children, brothers their sisters, or husbands their wives." (Equiano 209 – 210) Equiano is speak and about the separation of the family unit. How it was torn apart and separated. How kinship may never see each other again upon entering slavery with the "white master". Upon leaving…
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