Read the excerpt from thoughts and sentiments. it is therefore manifest, that something else ought yet to be done; and what is required, is evidently the incumbent duty of all men of enlightened understanding, and of every man that has any claim or affinity to the name of christian, that the base treatment which the african slaves undergo, ought to be abolished. read the excerpt from letters of the late ignatius sancho, an african. that subject, handled in your striking manner, would ease the yoke (perhaps) of many—but if only of one—gracious god! —what a feast to a benevolent heart! —and, sure i am, you are an epicurean in acts of charity.—you, who are universally read, and as universally admired—you could not fail in these excerpts, how does cugoano’s approach differ from sancho’s approach?

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?