EN 209 Lecture 18: April 16, 20, 23
29 Apr 2018
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April 16, 2018
Reading Due:
Perilous Passage in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Speech Delivered at Gettysburg by Abraham Lincoln
• Harriet Jacobs
o Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl under the name Linda Brent
• Perilous Passage
o Uses conventions of the sentimental novel to write novel
▪ Young woman on the cusp of marriage
▪ Choose between sexual desire and the good guy
o Trying to draw strength even through these terrible experiences
• Lincoln’s Speech
April 20, 2018
Reading Due:
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” and “Chapter 1: the author’s childhood” by
Fredrick Douglass
• Frederick Douglass
o Taken from his mother at a young age
▪ Risked her life every night to make sure he could sleep
▪ Aware of her but didn’t know her
o Very depressed and angry after the death of his mother
o Master was his father
o Educated by the mistress
▪ The bible
o Emotionally shattered him when the mistress stopped educating him
o At the point of suicide
o Ran away and ended up in New York
▪ Sent for his bride to be
▪ Went under the name Johnson
o Put suffrage and slavery hand in hand as similar issues
• What to the slave is the fourth of July?
o It’s a sham
o Lots of emotion
o Brings the bible and history into his speech
