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Olaudah Equiano's real name
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Gustavus Vassa
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What was the name of Equiano's narrative
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From the interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the african, written by himself
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What was olaudah the first to do
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the first slave to write his own story, very articulate
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What village was Olaudah from
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Eboe (Benin empire)
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what is literature
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verbal art expressed through words. (spoken or writtern)
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what are 3 aspects of literature and describe each
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content (what it contains)
medium (how you receive the information) and purpose (the point of it being relevant) |
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two words to describe literature
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aesthetic beauty
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what is "the vernacular"
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church songs, blues, ballads, sermons, stories and hip hop, part of oral (not necessarily written) tradition of black expression
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what was a main writer during the vernacular period
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Langston Hughes, Phyllis Wheatly
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Another definition of the vernacular
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self awareness and endurance, how africans expressed their views on the world, not how the whites saw it
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define vernaculus
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slave born in his master's house. * Belonging to, developed it
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What did david walker want to research
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how african american slavery was different than all other worldly enslavement (Africans had the worst form)
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what did david walker do regardless of consequences
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stated facts boldy
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names of leaders like david walker
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malcolm x, w.e.b dubois, marcus garvey
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how did david walker die
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poisoned to death
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what was david walker the first to do
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first outspoken leader for achieving freedom for blacks
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who is phyllis wheatly
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first african american to have book published and first to achieve an international reputation as a writer
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what was so amazing about phyllis wheatly
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african born slave writing in english
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what was the controversial part about wheatly's poem (example of work)
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very intelligent but made alot of ignorant statements in poetry (poem "On being brought from African to America"
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What was sojourner truth's physique like
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she was strong built, a very large woman
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what couldn't truth do
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she couldn't read or write
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what were the white women doing in the suffrage conference
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fighting for liberation
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what was truth invited to do
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speak out at conferences for the white women
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who was soujourner truth
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an abolitionist
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what was truth's real name?
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isabella Baumfree
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