The words of Prince exemplify the importance of the woman's voice in the anti-slavery campaign, while the controversy over her moral credibility challenges the principles of English society at that time. ... Each of these texts challenged the beliefs of English colonialists and abolitionists alike, while rendering strong anti-slavery messages that transcend controversy and exemplify the how invaluable the female voice was to the campaign. ... African-American studies scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explains the slave narrative in these terms: The Black slave narrators sought to indict ...

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The Europeans who owned slaves also thought that the slaves were not smart enough because they could not speak English and they did not have a written language. This was proven not to be true either because the second generation of slaves learned the English language with no trouble at all. ... There were a many number of free blacks, consisting of those had been freed or those in fact that were never slave. ... Nine percent of blacks are free. ... In 1844, Ross married a free black named John Tubman and took his last name. ...

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Most slave owners forbade their slaves from speaking their own language, and forced them to speak English. ... For many slaves would make use of their songs and stories to educate their people, enlighten their minds and free their souls. ...

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Another text which explores this theme is the work of Coguano (1787), that describes, in English, the horrific conditions aboard the slave ships. ... The first one uses many documents, reports and testimonies produced by the English tribunals in eighteenth century, without consideration to the slaves point of view, or African American literature. ...

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"# Degler's analysis of Negro discrimination continued with an explanation saying, "Thus, legal slavery in the English colonies reinforced and helped to perpetuate the discrimination against the Negro which prevailed almost from the beginning of settlement... Although, their meanings of race varied from place to place and "it was the English in North America who developed the most rigid and exclusionist form of race ideology" (Smedley 17). ...

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