Society secretary Thomas Pringle edited Prince's History to meet the restrictive criteria imposed on female slave narratives, and many believe his heavy-handedness blurs Prince's true identity and the crucial sense of authenticity (Rauwerda 397). ... The requirement that her text appear to the contrary complicates her story, but does not discredit its value. ... Through it all, she tells her story in such earnest that modern readers can almost hear abolitionists and colonialists of Prince's time gasping, "It wasn't that bad, was it?... "But my heart tells me it is far oth...

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• Grade Level: High School

Life in America for a slave was not a dream come true. ... Auld's wife did not know how to mistreat a slave, so instead of beating him, she secretly taught him how to read and write, but was caught soon by her husband who eventually made her stop. ... He also tells elaborate stories of how other slaves (even his own family members) were mistreated. ... He then traveled to Canada, served for a while with the French in their war against the English, and later passed over into the United States, to become a well-known American. ... He came back to France, and while he was there, his home was...

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He was a child when the Second Sudanese Civil War erupted. ... Taj fought through two separate wars over the past ten years. ... These war weapons were very large and taj could hardly lift one. ... The circumstances aren't always like how Jal's were when he was brought into child labor. ... Chaga and the Chocolate Factory is a children's book by Bob Hartman based on the true life of a young boy in Mali, that illustrates how that happens. ...

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The quote shows just how important the land that they had discovered was to them because of all the new materials. ... The Interesting Narrative tells a story of a slave that travels to through the Middle Passage and explores all different parts of the world. ... The chief employment in all these countries was agriculture, and both males and females, as with us, were brought up to it, and trained in the arts of war- (54). This quote shows how Equiano was passed from master to master and all the resources he encountered. ...

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Celia's denial for their continual accusations made them even more stubborn and desperate insisting her to tell them where Robert was. ... Generalizing the law of protection and implementing it over slaves, meant a risk of making both owner and slave at an almost equal social level and would make their idea of ownership pointless, knowing there is no true ownership when there is no total control. ...

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