Venture Smith

Venture Smith and Equiano are two similar stories in the content that they portray but not in the way that they portray it. The story of Venture smith is a somewhat plays by play of Venture’s journey to America and his coming into being a slave. His story does not really start with very much about his tribe or origins but more of the actions that take place around it. He is less descriptive and more telling a story about how he came to slavery. He does things such as telling that he was brought across the ocean while not being descriptive as much as he could be. This is completely different from Equiano. Equiano starts out differently in the first place in that he tells more of his origins. He tells of the tribe that he is from and what things were like for him growing up. His story helps provide a backing for the rest of his tale in that it gives an idea of where he was coming from and how it is different from what he was dragged into. He starts out telling the fact that he growing up in his tribe had slaves. He however, was clear to mention the differences between the slavery in his tribe and how it is conducted in America. He then tells about how his tribe is conquered and how he himself is sold into slavery to another tribe. This is different from this experience in America in that he says it was not near as bad. He was even grateful that he learned to be a smith in this case. However than he gets into the descriptive account of his journey into slavery. This is different from the account of Venture in that he gives vivid details of his journey, such as a portrayal of the smells on the ship over to America. Overall not only the accounts of these two men differ but also their overall stories.