Frederick Douglass and His Coping with Slavery In 1619, the first African slave ship to come to America landed at Jamestown, Virginia. ... The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the story of one of the many persons bound by the institution of slavery. Unlike most slaves, however, Frederick Douglass not only learned to survive within the slave system, but he also managed to escape to freedom "an extraordinary act that, to this day, testifies to the power of the human spirit. ... He did not know his date of birth or the identity of his father, nor was he aware of his positi...

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Blacks, on the other hand were bought for life. ... Frederick Douglass, probably the most famous writer of slave narratives, confessed to doing this. In Frederick Douglass; New literary and Historical Essays Sundquist tells how "his charges of brutality against Thomas Auld were deliberately inaccurate". ... Douglass, however, "made the facts of his life a dramatic representation of the great political forces that constituted the nations over slavery" (1990: 3) It is important to recognise the differences between the economic texts and the narratives on slavery to get the fullest and most accu...

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It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. "Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage; this is an emphatic claim to life, signifying the arrival of a new people on the scene of the New World. ... This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome sme...

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