ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Matriarchy, The Color Purple
Document Summary
Understanding slave narratives helps us to underpin the meaning behind uncle tom"s cabin. The treatment of people as machinery: shows most profound middle-class white ideals: protection of women"s chastity, the protection of sanctity, and the value of education, one of the most famous narratives is fred douglas"s 1845 account. Context of authorship: a wide variety of people helped the slaves escape. The white quakers were reverently against slavery: slave narratives were popular, but questions did arise about their authenticity. This was because they were written in an educated and eloquent style. This led to suggestions that they were not written by the slaves at all, but by the white abolitionists up north. In harriet jacobs novel, the preface is written by linda child (a white author) to spell out clearly how she knows of harriet jacobs and can confirm it is an authentic story. Linda child as a white abolitionist, provided the narrative with its approval: question of authenticity.
