SLAVE NARRATIVES: How Real is Real?

Abstract: (7 pp) Our posed question for this discussion is the comparison of a slave narrative with Brenda Stevenson's depiction of slavery in the book Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. (1998) The temptation when reading history is to remember to talk about perceptions. What was real to one person may not have been real to another. It is the same twentieth century thought, that each of us create our own reality. We naturally believe that there are times when those realities will intersect, but that hardly seems the case in this comparison.

Filename: BBslvnar.doc

Pages: 7

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Subcatagory: Slavery, Racism & Civil Rights

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