Status Updates From Classic Slave Narratives

reading this and learning about it in my black studies class has actually been so eye opening. it is a slave narrative, a religious narrative and a travel narrative that people in the 18th century were reading and gustavus cases is so intentional with everything he is saying, talking about how christianity would have never wanted slavery to happen, etc. love this book

Is this slaying? Yes.
Do I wish it was over? Also yes.

If i gotta read for school it's gonna be everyone's problem lol

I'm reading this for my US history class

This books is long long, and the words are crammed together so it's like 1000 pages of a typical paperback. We'll see, I like it thus far :-)

I read The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass last year so I only reread a few passages this time around.

Incidents in the life of a slave girl

Supplement of the history of Mary Prince

Chapter 6 The Life of Olaudah Equiano

Reading this one for my US history, but we're only reading 2 out of the 4 narratives. Currently reading the Frederick Douglass one...extremely interesting and horrifying all at once.

Linda Brent's life needs to be a movie. It would be horror but I can see it on the big screens.

Finished Mary Prince and Asa-asa's narratives. Comparing their stories with Olaudah's is basically getting up from a really horrible dream to a complete fucking nightmare. It escalated.

This is a difficult read.

One narrative down, two more to go. Olaudah's story is interesting because it broke my expectation of what slave narratives tend to be which is mostly slaving away in plantations. Also, the Caribbean was hell on Earth, it seems like. The last few pages were incredibly dry though.

FREEEEDOOOOOOOM!!

A very fascinating read! Already the first writer kind of went beyond my expectations with his memoir of being a slave on a war ship! It's completely different from the accounts of slaves living in plantations I've been reading so far.

I am now reading the 4th and final narrative--Incidents in the life of a slave girl. And I'm also watching the Williams sisters playing in the US open. Thank God for the progress we have made since these stories were written.

It's a very interesting book.

It's not going to be an easy read. I have to get use to the language of the nineteenth century. I think it is going to be interesting.

because the book has multiple narratives it is interesting how at the beginning of the narrative the persona will emphasise on a theme revolving around slavery.

Completed the second narrative, by Mary Prince, with a supplement by the editor and additional narrative by Asa-Asa. Prince's story is fascinating as she related the hardships while commenting to her audience about the effects of slavery in the British Empire.

Completed the first narrative, by Olaudah Equiano, and originally published in 1789 (first edition). The edition compiled in this collection is the ninth and dated 1794, and Equiano added some details about his life in those five years. Enjoyed his story and the varied experiences as a slave and freed man he enjoyed in the latter 18th century. His concluding thoughts on the values of Africa & Africans are important.

Finished Gates superb introduction and discussion of the four narratives on page xxx. The link he discusses between freedom, literacy and writing illustrates the continuing power and value of the slave narrative in American history and African American culture.

Done with Incidents in the Life of a Slace Girl reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

Finishing Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl

I'm done with Frederick Douglass and I think that it proves that Education Leads to emmancipation because it opens the eyes of slaves. This was clear after He had kicked his master and asserted his capabilities. He shows us that one can inflict fear on the fear inflictor. And this is truely a lesson most slaves must have wanted to use on their own masters.

Just finished Douglass, next Harriet Jacobs.

Yeah...this is for class.