Key Ideas and Characteristics in Slave Narratives
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The Slave Narrative is referred to in African-American literature as
a Black Letter/Message in a White envelope.
Olaudah Equiano (published his narrative in 1789)
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Spiritual autobiography can be regarded as a spiritual diary, in
which individuals charted their often tortuous progress to a state of
grace.
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From this British writing form, a new genre of slave narrative
emerged, mainly the three-part structure of slavery, escape, and
freedom that corresponds to the spiritual autobiography's three
parts that describe the life of sin, conversion, and spiritual rebirth.
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Equiano’s narrative especially, and many other slave narratives are
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- Spring '08
- OAKEY
- African American Literature, American Literature, Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, American Civil War, slave narrative
