Slave Narrative

Question 1

William L. Andrews on the ‘Slave Narrative’

Answer 1

“Typically, the American slave narrative centres on the rite of passage from slavery in the South to freedom in the North. Slavery is documented as a condition of extreme deprivation, necessitating increasingly forceful resistance” and “a harrowing and suspenseful escape”

Question 2

HF 1

Answer 2

“I hear ole missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans… I lit out mighty quick, I tell you.”

Question 3

HF 2

Answer 3

“She was ashamed she was ever going to sell him down the river, and SAID so; and she set him free in her will”

Question 4

RC 1

Answer 4

“I had a dreadful Deliverance. For I was wet, had no Clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me”

Question 5

RC 2

Answer 5

“I shar’d the Island into Parts with ‘em, reserv’d to my self the Property of the whole, but gave them such Parts respectively as they agreed on”