The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

According to Webster Dictionary racism is “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior” In several of the literary pieces we read during this class, racism and slavery were a main issue. Racism is just as much of an issue in our society today as it has been throughout our nations history and while we have made strides towards equality with the abolishment of slavery, we still have long way to go in the…

Compare the representation of family in the salves narratives of Douglass and Jacobs In this essay, I will talk about Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in terms of family. Regarding the authors, Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818 and died in February 1895. On the other hand, Harriet Ann Jacobs was born on February 11, 1813, and died on March 7, 1897, a woman who, nowadays, is remembered as an abolitionist writer and feminist.…

Beginning in the late 15th and 16th centuries, slave trade became quite popular in the slaves’ home country of Africa, where they were strictly imprisoned and horribly mistreated, as represented by the 18th century writings of Mungo Park and Olauda Equiano. Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer who voyaged to Africa’s interior. During his visit, Park witnessed the African slave trade in action. His accounts led him to produce Travels to the Interior Districts of Africa. In his writings Park…

United States chained up like animals and against their own will. They would fit multiple slaves in ships with not a lot of room, without giving them an adequate supply of food and water to live off of. According to the book, The Interesting Narrative of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, they were chained so close that they weren’t able to move around. As these slaves were chained up and little room to move they had to use the restroom on themselves and also eat in the same place causing the slaves…

considered a capital offense. In the eyes of God, criminally enslaving a man was not far from murdering him. An account of this scripture should have applied is of the story of Olaudah Equiano. Equiano published his autobiography in 1789 titled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. In his autobiography Equiano recounted the incident on how him and his sister were kid napped and sold into slavery. He was around the age of eleven when he and his sister were taken from their…

Native American oral literature / oral tradition - European explorers’ letters, diaries, reports, etc., such as Christopher Columbus’s letters about his voyage to the “New world”. - Anglo (New England) settlers’ books, sermons, journals, narratives, and poetry Native American / American Indian oral literature / oral tradition creation stories（起源神话） trickster tales（恶作剧者传奇） rituals / ceremonies（典仪） songs / chants（曲词） Anglo Settlers’ Writings Highly religious and pragmatic -…