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An 8 page paper which examines how Douglass conveys what it is like to be a slave by debunking the myths the American South perpetuated in order to justify the practice of slavery. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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human face. The actual autobiographical stories by one-time slaves offer important historical, social, and cultural perspectives about the impact of slavery on the slave. Many escaped slaves still
feared being recaptured so some narratives were written using pseudonyms. But Frederick Douglass proudly titled his autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and his engrossing text
has become the official gauge by which all slave narratives are measured. The articulate and largely self-taught Douglass deviated from convention by modeling his narrative less after the African
oral tradition of folktales, and instead modeled it more after Benjamin Franklins acclaimed autobiography in order to give it greater legitimacy. Like Franklins work, Douglass blends storytelling with eloquent
rhetoric. In addition, his "powerful, oratorical style creates a more personal relationship between the text and the reader, strengthening the emotional power of his work. His style of
writing is consistent with the style of abolitionist discourse; the structural repetition which Douglass uses is characteristic of the verbal, sermon-like quality of abolitionist discourse" (Henkel 89). But
even though Douglass was at time a freedman, he was still in a sense enslaved by a society that questioned how a black man with little formal education could have
written such an impressive text. In order to dispel any notion that his narrative had been ghostwritten (and to also further establish its legitimacy), Douglass shrewdly included a preface
section penned by two of Americas most famous abolitionists, William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of The Liberator, and Boston lawyer Wendell Phillips, who was a celebrated orator in his own right.
Garrison states categorically, "Mr. DOUGLASS has very properly chosen to write his own Narrative, in his own style, and according to the best of his ability, rather than to
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