Description
These three narratives provide a broad picture of slavery in America. Equianos 18th-century account takes readers from West Africa through the Middle Passage to the Caribbean to England and America. Douglass 19th-century narrative recounts his enslavement in Maryland and how his personal experience made him a formidable opponent of oppression and racism. Northrup came of age as a free black man in New York, but his narrative of his kidnapping and twelve-year enslavement in Louisiana provides evidence that American slavery jeopardized the lives of nominally free blacks as well.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.