Peter Wood, author of "The Dream Deferred," Peter Sterns, author of "Culture, Conflict, and Community," and Olaudah Equiano, author of The Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano describes the life of slaves before freedom ever imagined a toll; two of which addresses the slaves docility or lack there of. From narratives to historical journals, each author uses their own technique to represent Blacks" resistance and struggle against slavery. ... Unlike the other two essays discussed, author Olaudah Equiano uses a slave's personal account (which are his own) in a narrative form to d...

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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. ...

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Douglass" book, called "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," is an autobiography and gives an account of what it was like to live as an American slave. ... Using this technique Stowe could attract readers that were actually in favor of slavery and possibly reach into their feelings and show that people of color have the same feelings they do. ... In conclusion, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe show similarities in their views of slavery but they use very different techniques to get their point across. ...

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As a jazz musician, my personal experience with the theory of the blues and improvisation allows me to observe the release and tension technique within Toni Morrison's work. ... Morrison intends her work to appear improvised, her words sinuous, like the music of the black culture, which does not rely on words to convey expression; her use of streams of consciousness and non-linear narrative represent such a lyrical style. ... This narrative style contains short, repetitive sentences, creating a rhythmic rhetoric if read and repeated. ... There is a disorder of the linear narrative, pre...

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Because it is a more narrative approach, the reader is not as confronted with Abina's emotions as when the reader can see her facial expressions in the graphic novel. ... In Abina and the Important Men, Getz and Clarke recount the story of Abina, a former slave who goes to trial with her former slave master, and they tell the story in two different ways: through a graphic approach which highlights the personal experiences of Abina, as well as a more traditional narrative approach which focuses more on general information. Each approach highlights different aspects of the story, and compa...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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, ...

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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 ...

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• Grade Level: High School