ENG110Y5 Lecture 6: Fredrick Douglas notes
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This narrative is probably the best known of the genre slave narrative : many other texts like this in existence, tells the life of those that have been slaves in the us, two kinds of slave narrative, antebellum: before civil war, portrayed slavery as a condition of hell on earth , typically told by those that have escaped, those still enslaved are silent, often revolved around some personal crisis in which the narrator finds themselves close to disparity, most typically what will happen is that, impelled by some faith in human dignity or god or principles of the us"s founding, the narrative will tell the story of the slave"s escape into the north, the climax isn"t the escape, but rather the person assuming a new identity as an anti slavery activist (also changes name, postbellum: after civil war, slave narratives define slavery as degrading to the enslaved and the enslaver.
