Slave Narrative-Honors English (Enderby/Hilty)

The interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano gives us a good description of what?

The Middle Passage

"My father, besides many slaves, had a numerous family, of which seven lived to grow up, including myself and my sister, who was the only daughter. As I was the youngest of sons, I became, of course, the greatest favorite of my mother, and was always with her; and she used to take particular pains to form my mind. "

Equiano said this in his book. This quote uses biographical or historical context to give a personal narrative to show that he came from a wealthy family

Who was Jacob's slave master in her book?

Dr. Flint

Who wrote On Imagination?

Phillis Wheatley

What is a slave Narrative?

An account of the life or a major portion of the life of slave, either written or orally

What is an example of the unique perspective slave narratives give us?

Captivity/ Freedom

Cunning

Cleverness; slyness

What are the Phillis Wheatley's poems mainly focused on?

Death of a particular person, Greek/Roman Mythology, and Biblical References.

When did Wheatley die?

December 5, 1784

True or false Sojourner Truth had her speech written down

False, she would have gotten 100 on her improve speech in speech class

Who wrote What to the Slave is the 4th of July?

Frederick Douglass

Who was Jacobs' intended audience?

Free Women of the North

Where was Phillis Wheatley born?

Gambia

Who wrote "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"?

Harriet Jacobs

Who was Fredrick Douglass?

He was born into slavery in 1818 in Maryland. He was separated from his family and lived with his maternal grandmother. He taught himself how to read and write and when his owners found out about it they beat him often. He eventually escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist.

Who was Equiano?

He was taken as a slave at age 11. He was taken through the Middle Passage to Virginia and was sold into slavery to a sea captain. he learned to read an write and was eventually able to buy his freedom. He learned how to sail

Who taught Phillis Wheatley to read and write?

Her owners the Wheatley's

When was What to the Slave is the 4th of July given?

IT WAS NOT ON JULY 4th as you probably thought it was on July 5th

What was Jacob's Pseudonym?

Linda Byant

Douglass taught other slaves how to read and write using what?

Obviously an Iphone, Siri was helpful but autocorrect was not. jk he used THE BIBLE

Who wrote The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano?

Olaudah Equiano

Who wrote On Being Brought from Africa to America?

Phillis Wheatley

"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. A master may treat you as rudely as he pleases, and you dare not speak; moreover, the wrong does not seem so great with an unmarried man, as with one who has a wife to be made unhappy. There may be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible."

Said by Harriett Jacobs in her book. This quote gives a biographical or historical context to show her experiences when she had liked a white man who was not her master, but her master did not want to her to like anybody else and held his power of owning her over her

"Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,/ May be refin'd and join th' angelic train."

Said by Phillis Wheatley in her poem "On being brought from Africa to America" This quote uses tone and irony to give a message to the Christians referring to the Americans that their religion says that all those who believe in Christ will be able to go to heaven so if the slaves do as well they will go to heaven although they regard the race as evil and impure.

Where was Phillis Wheatley from?

Senegal

Who was Sojourner Truth?

She was born into slavery, but was able to escape. She was an advocate from Human rights including the rights of women.

Who is Harriet Jacobs?

She was born into slavery, but was still taught how to read and write. She escaped slavery and spent 7 years in hiding. She wrote her experience of slavery in a book.

Who wrote "Ain't I a Woman?"

Sojourner Truth

Who bought Phillis?

The Wheatley's

"The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so in tolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time... The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us. This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died..."

This quote is by Equiano. He uses imagery to paint a clear picture in the mind of the audience about what it was like on the Middle Passage.

"Winter austere forbids me to aspire, / And northern tempests damp the rising fire; / They chill the tides of Fancy's flowing sea, / Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay."

This quote is from On imagination by Phillis Wheatley. She uses symbolism and Allusions. She uses Winter to symbolize the harshness of reality. It uses personification to give characteristics to Imagination and uses allusion to the old green. She also uses imagery the give the readers a picture of what Imagination is and how powerful it is.

"O, ye nominal Christians! might not an African ask you, learned you this from your God, who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you? Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends to toil for your luxury and lust of gain?"

This quote is said by Equiano. This quote is using irony, rhetoric technique of ethos. He uses irony of the Christians views compared to their actions. He uses a ethos by using the credibility of their bible's or their scripters' beliefs and thus compares it to the treatment of the people.

"What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters?"

This quote was said by Fredrick Douglass. He uses Imagery to illustrate the dehumanization of slaves

"Pity me, and pardon me, O virtuous reader! You never knew what it is to be a slave; to be entirely unprotected by law or custom; to have the laws reduce you to the condition of a chattel, entirely subject to the will of another... Still, in looking back, calmly, on the events of my life, I feel that the slave woman ought not to be judged by the same standard as others..."

This quote was said by Harriett Jacobs. This quote uses the rhetorical technique of ethos, and pathos. She uses ethos as herself because her story that she wrote was a personal narrative with all of her experiences as a slave. She also uses pathos to contrast of the audience experiences to emphasize the treachery of her experiences as a slave.

"Imagination is an "imperial queen... [with a] hand...wand'ring eyes... [and a] sceptre o'er the realms of thought...[that before her] throne the subject-passions bow."

This quote was written by Phillis Wheatley. She uses personification to give a characteristic of imagination to how how it is a good thing or like a good ruler who rules the subjects justly.

"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake..."

This was said by Fredrick Douglass. This quote uses tone, metaphors, personification, contrast and imagery to almost exaggerate to get the point across about how much there had to be change. For example to uses the contrast of the "gentle shower, but thunder." He also uses tone to give out an air of incredible importance of the need for change.

"'T WAS mercy brought me from my Pagan land, / Taught my benighted soul to understand..."

This was said by Phillis Wheatley. As she uses tone and irony to show that the people who enslaved her took her from her home that was uneducated about the goodness of the Lord who was all loving and all people were equal under the cross, but in America the people where not even though the slavers taught the slaves about that religion.

TPCASTT

Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title, Theme

Which of the authors was not born a slave?

Wheatley and Equiano

What is ethos?

credibility

What is pathos?

emotion

Bombast

impressive but meaningless language

Exordium

introduction

Impiety

lack of reverence or dutifulness

What is Logos?

logic

Imprudent

not showing care for the consequences of an action; rash

Wheatley was the first African American to do what?

publish a book

"The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here to-day is, to me, a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude. You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say... I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together; and trusting to your patient and generous indulgence, I will proceed to lay them before you..."

said by Fredrick Douglass. He uses biographical context is using the example of the knowledge that he was close to the plantation that we he was close to that he had escaped from and talking from his experiences as a slave.

What was the main tone of Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America?"

sarcastic

Obdurate

stubborn; unyielding

Despotism

the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.

Evince

to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke

Rebuke

to scold

Sunder

to separate

Equivocate

to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberately vague or ambiguous

Flay

to whip; to remove skin