Africa Studies Book review on Harriet Jacob and Frederick Douglass (free book)

Book Review

You are required to write one book review for this course on a topic that is

relevant to the course material. Below are the questions that you must

answer in your response. In addition to the primary sources, you may use

your textbook for pertinent information.

. Your papers should be

2-3pages

, double-spaced with 12-point font.

1) How does Jacobs’s narrative measure up to Douglass’s in terms of

literary quality and style?

2) How did Douglass use traditional notions of what it means to be an

American in order to build his character and show that slaves could

be “real” Americans?

3) Douglass makes two crucial transformations in this narrative: from a

man to a brute and from a brute to a man. How does he achieve these

transformations?

4) Evaluate the effectiveness of Jacobs’s narrative for white female

readers, her primary audience. For example, how would they have

reacted to her decision to involve herself with a white unmarried

man? Is there any way Jacobs “redeemed herself” after this incident?

Solution preview

Abolitionism is the movement that had taken upon itself to see to it that slavery was abolished. In addition the movement’s main objective was to ascertain that those who had been sold into slavery would be in a position to earn their freedom. The current paper seeks to conduct an analysis of the literary works that were made available………………………

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