LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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So the author could get paid.
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In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.
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So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.
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So that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some former slaves, such as Douglass and Brown, wrote their narratives themselves. But many were illiterate, and so dictated their stories to abolitionists. The slave narratives provided the most powerful voices contradicting the slaveholders’ favorable claims concerning slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slave and ex-slave narratives are important not only for what they tell us about African American history and literature, but also because they reveal to us the complexities of the dialogue between whites and blacks in this country in the last two centuries, particularly for African Americans.
Detailed explanation-3: -Slave narratives are the firsthand accounts of black and African American people who were enslaved and experienced enslavement. These narratives are essential tools in the study of American history and literature and have played a central role in national debates about slavery, freedom, and American identity.
Detailed explanation-4: -He wrote his Narrative both to “prove” his identity, and to bring his eloquent indictment of slavery to a wider audience. It was probably the best-selling of all the fugitive slave narratives: 5000 copies were sold within four months of its first printing, and 6 new editions were published between 1845 and 1849.