He had, " no accurate knowledge of [his] age, never having seen any authentic record containing it" (20). ... An enormous self-discovery Douglass encounters is the gift of learning. ... Douglass strived for obtaining new knowledge while enslaved discovering that he could learn to read while on the job. ... However, Douglass knew how important his self-discovery of education was to him. ... His important self-discoveries of creating understanding in a white man's world, his understanding of Southern religion and particularly his quest for gaining and spreading the wealth of knowledge h...

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• Grade Level: High School

In addition, the narrative is also considered as a typical American autobiography in that it: 1/ stands as a life of an individual who also 2/embodies guide to life for others and 3/ reports discovery of the self (we shall comeback to this last point later I mean the making of the self) but first one may wonder why Frederic Douglas felt compelled to tell his life story in the Narrative. ... I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their age as horses know theirs, and it is the wish o...

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Douglass is aware that knowing how to read and write are both very important, yet he wishes that they did not come with the discovery of the full extent of the horrors of life, which in his case, would be slavery. ... This newfound knowledge tormented Douglass, making every day spent enslaved, a painful one. ...

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In the colonies, at the time of Columbus's discovery they believed in the symbols of dreams and they used animals as a way of guiding their every action. ... They could have made their way, into parts of Europe or even the Caribbean and had gained some sort of knowledge about the christian religion(insert) thornton makes reference to the priests who came over on the slave ships (insertpg264) nad stayed at the coast until the slaves were actually on the ships. ... Thornton express knowledge of the afro - american culture using the Santeria of Cuba, Cuba is a spanish c...

• Word Count: 1957
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In his opening lines, Douglass addresses how the institution of slavery narrows slaves' opportunities for self-knowledge. ... His autobiography is a story of self-discovery; he details how his growing awareness of his condition, through his self-acquired education, propelled him to re-create himself. ...

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Other important factors made Africa the hot spot for British and European expansion including the discovery of gold in the Transvaal and diamonds in the Orange Free State, the palm oil industry in Nigeria, scientific discoveries such as the way to treat malaria, and the mapping and exploration of the previously mysterious African interior early in the 19th century. ... African expansion hadn't particularly been considered by because it wasn't viable do to high mortality rates caused by malaria and other tropical diseases and the lack of geographic knowledge of the African hinterla...

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She is described by Rochester as a 'savage, beautiful creature' and, as she attempts to assert control after the discovery of his previous marriage, feels 'as the Indian, perhaps, feels when he slips the rapid in his canoe'. ...

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This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died- - thus falling victims of the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers" (From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, London, 1789) In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African the protagonist recounts the pain involved in entering this enormous ship, and how, gradually, the more the ship flew over ...

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• Grade Level: High School