Are we all really brothers and sisters?

Benjamin Banneker wrote the letter to Thomas Jefferson on the 19^th of August 1971. The letter includes various reasons why slavery should no longer continue. Banneker himself a free man, set out to write such a well-organized letter to the former president of the Unites States of America. In the letter he basically calls the president a liar; however he does not say it in such a blunt way. Banneker states that humans came from one Father typically referring to Christians, by the term “father” he refers to G-d. What he attempted to imply is that both slaves and their masters are brothers and sisters and they should not be acting towards each other in such manner as they are.  The father has awarded each and every one of them the same sensations, they are all able to see, hear, and smell.

            Now the question is why humans would put each other in such horrifying situations, are all humans really brothers? Do all have one father? Banneker refers to Christians as being brothers and sisters. Has he forgotten about the other major religions, which include Judaism and Islam? The actual question is, if all humans felt the "same sensations," then wouldn't the slave-traders have been incapable of practicing slavery? At this point the major slaves were African American; Banneker refers to slaves coming from one “father” allowing all “brothers” to practice Christianity, wouldn’t we say that African Americans come from Africa. We shouldn’t go too far, Equiano was from Africa. I wouldn’t say that the only religion practiced in Africa was Christianity; I believe that Islam was practiced as well.

            With Banneker referring to Christianity as being the religions that most slaves or “brothers” possess may answer our question as towards why humans, in particular Africans did not feel the same sensations when kidnapping a fellow African. They may not have come from the same “father” they may have not been brothers and sisters! Equiano was captured by a fellow African, and sold to different slave traders as time passed. He has experienced both African and European slave traders. Equiano witnessed how each human treated each other; I am safe to say that they did not treat each other as if they were brother and sister.  If all humans were brothers and sisters, why would Equiano compare himself to a hunted deer? Would a brother hunt another brother as if he were an Animal?