The relationship between external knowledge and self-knowledge can simply be described as a love/hate relationship. While external knowledge can contain many reports of experiences seen or heard and bring them together to form a thought, self-knowledge can contain only one person's report but has much more recognizability and basis. When a movement occurs, the strength and movement of self-knowledge is much more suitable because it makes people feel connected to that person and therefore to the movement. An example of this is The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano. However, external knowledge allows for a broader sense of knowledge that may have been gained through many experiences and studies. “Many times, these stories from outside knowledge are compatible with stories of self-knowledge on the same topic and may even draw more attention to the topic. For example, “The Little Black Boy” was written in 1798 during the early antislavery movement, when many supported the slave trade. This was in support of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, an organization founded in 1787 that asked authors to aid in their cause by creating awareness through their works (Steere). Although William was not a slave (or even an African), he conducted much research and created stories that provided great insight into how slaves felt and were treated. For example, the lines "And these black bodies and this sunburned face / Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove" indicate that blacks and whites are the same in and before the Lord (Williams, 17-18) . The fact that Williams used language such as "I will shelter him from the heat, till he can bear / Lean with joy upon our Father's knee," implying that God sees all of His creation as equal, makes the reader understand that slavery is not compatible with Christianity (Williams, 25-26). This view causes many readers to change their minds about the slave trade, as most in this time period are Christians. This is also the goal of self-knowledge which can only be told by the individual and therefore brings a quality that no one else can offer. Furthermore, at times, works created through external knowledge may seem incomplete or lacking compared to works created through self-knowledge simply because each experience is unique. For example, in “The Little Black Boy” the main character seems upset because he cannot play with the white boy because of his appearance, but his mother consoles him by saying that God sees everyone as equal and that when He calls His people to Heaven, color will not be a factor. While this poem helps one understand that slavery does not agree with Christianity and should be abolished, it lacks the personal feeling and experiences of a book written with self-knowledge, such as The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Olaudah describes his journey from being kidnapped and sold into slavery to earning his freedom and later fighting in the anti-slavery movement (Equiano). Equiano contains material that only those who lived it can tell, such as: "The proximity of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each one had barely room to turn around, almost suffocated. This produced copious perspiration, so much so that the air soon became unfit for breathing, due to a variety of unpleasant odors, and caused illnesses among the inhabitants..