Many people cannot argue the severity of these two narrative accounts. Both narratives left us with mind scarring images and stomach churning feelings as we read the two narratives. ... In the second paragraph of chapter one, Douglas uses an ingenious technique. ... Both narratives clearly have violent encounters. ... Douglas" narrative is a personal experience that readers relate to. ...
Book Review Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave Written by Himself Introduction: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born around 1818 into slavery in Talbot Country, Maryland. ... (Ch. 5, A Narrative). ... American author, abolitionist, and lecturer, Douglas wrote three autobiographies during his life-time; A Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881). ... Chapter one: In chapter one from the very beginning of his Narrative, ...
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 ...
