01:014:203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John Hope Franklin, Olaudah Equiano, Stanley Elkins

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Afro-American Studies
• Course: 01:014:203
• Professor: E.Ramsamy

Document Summary

Side/ professor notes: green: making relationships when they could be destroyed any minute, natal alienation (social + civil death) john hope franklin, the slave narrative resisting slavery, v. p. Franklin: slave narratives (autobiographic account, gives personal account of how it felt, personal and larger context, enables us to avoid forgetting, experience and ideology. Oppressive institution: olaudah equiano born in benin 1756, read + write wrote autobiographies, first accounts of the middle passage. Pejorative/racist context stanley elkins oppressive nature of slavery: plantation slave is loyal but lazy; liars (howard, innate characteristic. Howard mcgary on the sambo thesis: racist origins, slaves not resisting is historically inaccurate, herbert 250 revolts, descriptive problem blacks didn"t lose hope, methodological problem (reduced person?)