English 3349F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Discrimination Based On Skin Color, Nat Turner, Sally Hemings

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 3349F/G
• Professor: Alyssa MacLean

Document Summary

Published in 1853 on the heels of uncle tom"s cabin. Brown wrote his own autobiography and slave narrative almost as popular as douglass" able to think of them together. Also able to talk about them as reformers/abolitionist thinkers. As a fictionalist work, competing against utc in fiction. Would also be competing against house of the seven gables. Born in kentucky 1814, tried to escape with his mother 1843 captured and resold. Tried to escape again in 1834, met a quaker named wells brown. Moved to south shore at lake erie and became a steamboat operator on lake erie. Transported people on underground railroad on his steamboat. Very vocal and liked storytelling represented himself as a sort of pirate on lake erie, the disguises and scenarios he invented to help people escape. Sentiment linked to emotion or affect denotes a physical response to thought.