Rhetorical Analysis of a slave narrative Slavery was an unfortunate and devastating mark on American history. We talk about it and learn about it in classes but it is rare that we read about honest firsthand accounts from actual slaves. The account in question comes from the viewpoint of Tempie Herndon Durham which was saved through the passage of time by the federal writers project which can be found online via the library of congresses online affiliate. This story holds influence not only socially and politically but gives us information on the history and culture of a group of people who had been tried to be silenced which makes its interest fall under the umbrella of everyone in the united states for influencing this country and how
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Tempie Herndon Durham was a woman born into slavery up until she was 31 years old in which finally she was free and began a new life as a free woman. She has her life story to back her up to be a credible source of information to get a view of slavery and what it was like at the time. This story of hers telling us a slight passage of her life story from her owners and their cotton mill and dye production to when she got married to another slave from another plantation, I believe that through her story is intended for an audience of all ages who want to know about an individual 's first hand point of view of the life of a slave which can reach the interests of millions with her life story due to the fact that there are millions of people right now who take or have taken a simple history class and at one point or another the spark of interest has hit them and the interest of learning more …show more content…
Was 31 years ole when the surrender come" (285) and then went on to live a happy life after her previous owners gave her rations of seeds, clothing and feathers to load into their cart and moved out into their own farm. This means that she lived through it all from slavery to salvation and it was her own personal experience so this means that this information that she brought forward is a good enough reason to not question the information that she brought to light. All thought there does seem to be an underlying bias throughout the paper. The bias is that she treated her owner not like a slaver master but almost as a mother and said that when her previous owner needed to be taken care of, she went back to take care of them because "dey was the same as a mammy and pappy" (290). This connection to her previous slave owners made her account of being a slave to more like being a simple servant of the family instead of what she unfortunately really was which was property to the people who she thought of as a mother and father
Tempie Herndon Durham was a woman born into slavery up until she was 31 years old in which finally she was free and began a new life as a free woman. She has her life story to back her up to be a credible source of information to get a view of slavery and what it was like at the time. This story of hers telling us a slight passage of her life story from her owners and their cotton mill and dye production to when she got married to another slave from another plantation, I believe that through her story is intended for an audience of all ages who want to know about an individual 's first hand point of view of the life of a slave which can reach the interests of millions with her life story due to the fact that there are millions of people right now who take or have taken a simple history class and at one point or another the spark of interest has hit them and the interest of learning more …show more content…
Was 31 years ole when the surrender come" (285) and then went on to live a happy life after her previous owners gave her rations of seeds, clothing and feathers to load into their cart and moved out into their own farm. This means that she lived through it all from slavery to salvation and it was her own personal experience so this means that this information that she brought forward is a good enough reason to not question the information that she brought to light. All thought there does seem to be an underlying bias throughout the paper. The bias is that she treated her owner not like a slaver master but almost as a mother and said that when her previous owner needed to be taken care of, she went back to take care of them because "dey was the same as a mammy and pappy" (290). This connection to her previous slave owners made her account of being a slave to more like being a simple servant of the family instead of what she unfortunately really was which was property to the people who she thought of as a mother and father