ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Other distinguishing characteristics of the slave narrative are its simple, forthright style; vivid characters; and striking dramatic incidents, particularly graphic violence and daring escapes, such as that by Henry “Box” Brown, who packed himself into a small crate and was shipped north to waiting abolitionists.

Detailed explanation-3: -For the duration of their servitude they were bonded to their ‘master’. Their freedoms were restricted, they were forbidden to marry without consent, did not have freedom of movement and did not receive the level of justice in courts that a non-indentured person would receive.

Detailed explanation-4: -William Grimes, Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, New York, 1825. Solomon Bayley, A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America, 1825. Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, London, 1831. More items