English 2308E Lecture 10: English: 2308E Lecture 10: American Lit lecture 10 - October 21, 2015
20 Jan 2016
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Roughly middle class white women as audience people engaged in reform literacy. Motivations to get rid of slavery was many fold. Didn"t want to equate african-americans to white people. African-american slaves: text that follows is in many ways a promise that will deliver to northern readers the sensational and problematics of slavery related to sexuality. Main argument that slavery is horrible sexual degradation opposed upon young women bc of slavery is even worse. To achieve political action by her readers against the peculiar institution (slavery) she had to focus on one of the main things that northerners at the time didn"t want to hear about. When she"s writing it his book there was major shift in slave narratives. Up until then very little interest on bodily life of female slaves in 40s and. Transform how women are perceived from fallen to victim.
