This testament served as one of few written accounts of how bad slavery could be and why it shouldn't exist at all. "I began to raise my fear from man to him alone, and to call daily on his holy name with fear and reverence: and I trust he heard my supplications, and graciously condescended to answer me according to his holy word, and to implant the seeds of piety in me, even one of the meanest of his creatures" (Equiano, 88). ...

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Confucianism took a humanistic approach in which an individual's action determined whether they were good or bad. ... He perceived benevolence as seeds, like apple seeds, which after being sown, will sprout and grow. " This renders the idea that an individual uses oneself as a role model to standardize one's behavior in relative to others around them. ...

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