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A 3 page paper which examines the institution of slavery through Alex Haley’s work Roots and The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass. No additional sources cited.
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such as slave narratives and even novels based on real facts. This is what Frederick Douglass The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Alex Haleys Roots provides for
the reader. Douglass work is a first hand account, an autobiography, of Douglass life as a slave and Haleys work is based on genealogical information he uncovered about his family
that was then elaborated upon. The following paper examines, comparing and contrasting, what the two works tell the reader about slavery. Slavery: Roots and Frederick Douglass Both of
these works are about a male who is, or becomes, a slave in the United States. In the case of Douglass he was born into slavery and did not understand,
as is common with many young children, till he was a bit older, that he was actually a slave. He did not know his mother as she was taken away
from him as an infant and "My father was a white man...The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father" (Douglass I).
In Roots Haley presents the story of Kunta Kinte, an African individual who becomes a slave. He is raised in his culture, with his mother, learning the traditions
of his people, and growing into a man prior to his becoming a slave. In these respects the reader gets a very different look at slavery. In the case of
Douglass one sees the institution as it is established through at least one previous generation while in Kuntas case the reader sees his life of freedom and tradition in African
prior to his being stolen away to become a slave. Both individuals, however, are clearly men who face many similar situations as
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