Compare at least two narratives of the enslaved and suggest what message the author convey and what strategies they use to accomplish this.

Enslavement & Resistance Class Essay

2000 Words

Please turn in 1 page of essay outline and at least 2000 words for the essay.

Essay Outline (thesis statement, topic sentences, bullet points of evidence)

MLA format + work cite page

When you are referring to slaves in your writing please only use the phrase “Enslaved Africans” when referring them and avoid using any other phrases (like slaves, negros, blacks, etc..)

Compare at least two narratives of the enslaved and suggest what message the author convey and what strategies they use to accomplish this.

• Please use the resources below and any other *academic* sources through the library.

Enslaved Person Narratives

• Search the Slave Narrative Project | Library of Congresshttps://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=slave+narrative+…

• com/lib/csueastbay/detail.action?docID=762616″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>I Was Born a Slave : An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives – Yuval Taylor and Charles Johnson – https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csueastbay/detail.action?docID=762616

• Barracoon: the story of the last “black cargo” – Zora Neale Hurston author (On reserve in CSUEB Library)

• Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831. Said, Omar Ibn – Dwight, Theodore – Omar Ibn Said Collection (Library of Congress) – LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/2018662630
• Search the Slave Narrative Project | Library of Congress
  • https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

• The story of Biddy Mason (who helped to build Los Angeles)

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. -Harriett Jacobs
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself