Download or read book A Comparison of the Slave Narratives The History of Mary Prince and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by Julia Deitermann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, San Diego State University, course: The American Renaissance, language: English, abstract: America’s history would lack a significant part without the dark chapter of slavery. The horrors and cruelties of the exploitation of blacks are written down in so-called slave narratives, being told or written by former slaves themselves. In the 19thcentury, both quantity and popularity of this literary form rose, for in the face of the abolitionist struggle against slavery the narratives were published as political documents, designed to increase the opposition. Slave narratives offer a striking insight into the reality of being a slave; they appeal to the readers’ hearts in order to increase their sympathy for slaves and emphasize the inhumanity of the institution and its followers. Having a didactic tone, the narratives speak for equality between whites and African Americans, which are not to be treated as the inferior race, and criticize the religious hypocrisy of the whites. Black people, on the contrary, are regarded as the true worshippers. Moreover, a certain pattern can be traced in most of these narratives as they commonly depict the slave’s growing up, the separation from family and beloved friends, years of cruel treatment, the longing for freedom and the final escape. The characteristics mentioned above are by and large true for the two slave narratives that ought to be analyzed in the following. Both inThe History of Mary Prince and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,the narrators are born into slavery, separated from their families and treated cruelly as slaves. The stories also include religious, sentimental, violent and didactic characteristics. They attempt to overcome society’s prejudices about black people and to support the struggle against slavery. Most important, Prince’sHistoryis written from a female point of view, thus emphasizing domesticity, emotions and faith, whereas Douglass’ Narrative bears the influence of male ideals such as courage, manliness and education. In the following, both similarities and differences between the two slave narratives ought to be analyzed against the background of the genre and its conventions. The first crucial difference betweenThe History of Mary Prince and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass becomes obvious when observing title and subtitle of Douglass’ Narrative which is fully named Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave - Written by Himself. [...]
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Frederick Douglass and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other. Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass’s own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs’s account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains essential reading. Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide
Download or read book The History of Mary Prince written by Mary Prince and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave. Mary Prince was a British abolitionist and autobiographer, born in Bermuda, to an enslaved family of African descent. Subsequent to her escape, she was later living in London, England, she wrote The History of Mary Prince (1831), which was the first account of the life of a black woman to be published in the United Kingdom. 'My mother was a household slave in the same family. I was under her own care, and my little brothers and sisters were my play-fellows and companions. My mother had several fine children after she came to Mrs. Williams,--three girls and two boys. The tasks given out to us children were light, and we used to play together with Miss Betsey, with as much freedom almost as if she had been our sister. My master, however, was a very harsh, selfish man; and we always dreaded his return from sea. His wife was herself much afraid of him; and, during his stay at home, seldom dared to shew her usual kindness to the slaves. He often left her, in the most distressed circumstances, to reside in other female society, at some place in the West Indies of which I have forgot the name. '
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by David W. Blight and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Douglass's "Narrative" reprints this classic document together with speeches and letters, all in a volume designed for undergraduate students. An extensive introduction places the "Narrative" in its historical and literary contexts with annotations on needed background.
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic autobiography of the great 19th century black leader and abolitionist.
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Written by Himself written by Frederick Douglass and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-04-13 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impassioned abolitionist and eloquent orator provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Published in 1845 to quell doubts about his origins, the Narrative is admired today for its extraordinary passion, sensitive descriptions, and storytelling power.
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written more than a century ago, this is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded, revealing the inhumanity suffered by slaves in the pre-Civil War South. Preface by William Lloyd Garrison.
Download or read book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic autobiography of the great 19th century black leader and abolitionist.
Download or read book The History of Mary Prince written by Mary Prince and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Bermuda in the late 18th century, Mary Prince was a Black woman who survived enslavement in the colonial world of the Caribbean. She orally told her story to a third party, who transcribed it. First published in England in 1831, "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave" is one of the most important narratives of the slave experience in the Americas. This book describes in detail the reality of the slave experience: the dehumanization of Black people, the moral degradation of their masters, and the ever-present violence. Prince's story is also an important early defense of the humanity of people of African descent. She notes that slave masters "think that black people are like cattle, without natural affection. But my heart tells me it is far otherwise." Prince tells of her labor in the salt ponds of Turk's Island, her conflict with a hired mulatto woman, her spiritual life in the Moravian Church, and many other topics. Ultimately, she celebrates the desire and hope for freedom: "All slaves want to be free." While "The History of Mary Prince" does not quite attain the level of literary craftsmanship and psychological complexity as slave narratives by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, it is still a powerful, authoritative, and important human testament. Mary Prince declares, "I have been a slave--I have felt what a slave feels, and I know what a slave knows." We of later centuries need to hear her words.
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his wrenching, classic autobiography--one of the most important documents in American history--Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave and, later, a slave who became a man. Reissue.
Download or read book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by Sai ePublications via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time. A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages. I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege. I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it. He deemed all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and impertinent, and evidence of a restless spirit. The nearest estimate I can give makes me now between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age. I come to this, from hearing my master say, some time during 1835, I was about seventeen years old. My mother was named Harriet Bailey. She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, both colored, and quite dark. My mother was of a darker complexion than either my grandmother or grandfather. My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me. My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant—before I knew her as my mother. It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age. Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor. For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the child's affection toward its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child. This is the inevitable result. I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life; and each of these times was very short in duration, and at night. She was hired by a Mr. Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from my home. She made her journeys to see me in the night, travelling the whole distance on foot, after the performance of her day's work. She was a field hand, and a whipping is the penalty of not being in the field at sunrise, unless a slave has special permission from his or her master to the contrary—a permission which they seldom get, and one that gives to him that gives it the proud name of being a kind master. I do not recollect of ever seeing my mother by the light of day. She was with me in the night. She would lie down with me, and get me to sleep, but long before I waked she was gone. Very little communication ever took place between us. Death soon ended what little we could have while she lived, and with it her hardships and suffering. She died when I was about seven years old, on one of my master's farms, near Lee's Mill. I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial. She was gone long before I knew any thing about it. Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-18 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Dear Friend: You remember the old fable of "The Man and the Lion," where the lion complained that he should not be so misrepresented "when the lions wrote history."I am glad the time has come when the "lions write history." We have been left long enough to gather the character of slavery from the involuntary evidence of the masters. One might, indeed, rest sufficiently satisfied with what, it is evident, must be, in general, the results of such a relation, without seeking farther to find whether they have followed in every instance. Indeed, those who stare at the half-peck of corn a week, and love to count the lashes on the slave's back, are seldom the "stuff" out of which reformers and abolitionists are to be made. I remember that, in 1838, many were waiting for the results of the West India experiment, before they could come into our ranks. Those "results" have come long ago; but, alas! few of that number have come with them, as converts. A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar, -and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women, -before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery li
Download or read book The History of Mary Prince written by Mary Prince and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave” is a 1831 autobiography of Mary Prince (1788–1833), a British abolitionist and autobiographer. Born in Bermuda to a family of African slaves, she managed to escape to London where she wrote this book. The first account of a black woman's life published in Great Britain, “The History of Mary Prince” was highly controversial in a time of growing anti-slavery agitation. The book touched many people and was hugely popular, selling out thee printings. Contents include: “The History Of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave”, “History Of Mary Prince, By The Editor”, and “Narrative Of Louis Asa-Asa, A Captured African”.
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Illustrated written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts[1]. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.
Download or read book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
