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The captivities of Mary Rowlandson and Equiano parallel each other, but they also have differences that can be seen throughout their journeys. During Mary's captivity, she lost her daughter from wounds sustained during their capture. Equiano also saw and experienced death, while aboard a slave ship. The slaves died of infection and some by the crewmembers of the ship. Their emotions through the experience were similar. They both felt grief-stricken, Mary because her daughter died, her son was wondering the wilderness, and her other daughter was not allowed to see her. Equiano was grief stricken because his sister was taken away from him and he thought the strange men aboard the ship would eat him. They are also alike in the way they were assimilated into the cultures of their captors. In the beginning of Rowlandson considered her captors to be miserable people. By the end of the excerpt, she was referring to their home as her own. She was became a member of their society, to the......

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