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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass. While each of these autobiographical accounts were written in order to inform the white reading public about the horrors of slavery, examination of these books shows that Douglass’ narrative is the more radical of the two due to the fact that Equiano’s experience, while horrible, was less dehumanizing and severe. No additional sources cited.
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and Olaudah Equiano. While each of these autobiographical accounts were written in order to inform the white reading public about the horrors of slavery, examination of these books shows that
Douglass narrative is the more radical of the two due to the fact that Equianos experience, while horrible, was less dehumanizing and severe. Both men were subjected from childhood
to the dehumanizing aspects of slavery, that is, the idea that they were not entitled to fully human status, but rather were, and should regard themselves, as property. Conventions that
supported the dehumanization process were complex and varied. Equiano relates the unbelievable degradation of the slave ship, which brought him to the Americas after being captured and separated from his
family at age eleven. Douglass relates how his mother was intentionally separated from him so that a paternal bond, a defining human feature, would not develop and his father was,
most probably, his white master. The name given him to by his master, "Frederick Douglass," was the only one that Douglass ever knew. Equiano, on the other hand, knew his
family, was beloved by his family and grew up free for his first eleven years. While still a child when he was captured, he had a fully formed identity and
resisted the imposition of another name, Gustavus Vassa, by his master. Nevertheless, despite being treated as an animal, Douglass achieved identity integration and established goals for himself, such as learning
how to read and write. During the antebellum era, it was illegal, in many regions, to teach a slave how to read or write. However, Douglass states that "The
idea as to how I might learn to write was suggested to me by being in Durgin and Baileys shipyard" (Douglass 1908). As a boy, Douglass noted that the carpenters
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