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This 5 page report discusses the first chapter of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and the story of Aunt Hester's beating. The point is made that His narrative clearly speaks to the abolitionist discourse of his day in that it demonstrates what was happening to an entire group of human beings. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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adopted the name "Douglass." The majority of the 78 years of his life was devoted to the emancipation and freedom of 19th century African Americans. His lectures on slavery to
audiences in Great Britain created a great deal of sympathy for the abolitionists cause and prompted his admirers to raise funds to purchase his freedom. According to an encyclopedic (Encarta)
reference, Quarles (1994) explains that his oratorical and intellectual skills were so great that his critics refused to believe he had ever been a slave and claimed he was a
fraud passed off on the public by the anti-slavery sympathizers (PG). In reply, Douglass wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
an American Slave (1845), which he revised in later years; in final form, it appeared in 1882 under the title Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. The America of the
19th century had never (or very rarely) heard an articulate former slave whose message, bearing, and intelligence far exceeded that of the majority of free-borne and well-educated whites. His "Narrative"
allows a 21st century reader a glimpse into the world of repression and brutality. "A Specific Political Purpose" It can easily (albeit
not convincingly) be argued that Douglass sensationalized the world from which he escaped in order to gain support for the goal of doing away with slavery. In fact, Douglass work
might only be read today as the moving autobiography of a slave. However, at the time it was written, says Stipe (1999) it was an argumentative commentary produced for a:
"... specific political purpose and wielding a deliberate, uncomfortable edge" (p. 14). Paradoxically, some people criticized him for his literacy saying that he was excluding illiterate Blacks in much the
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