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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