Essay on Slavery

For instance, companies like Starbucks usually creates narratives and so is the cities when they are rebranding in their attempts to sell their policy. Therefore, this paper aims to explain how the slave narrative was perceived in the 18th and 19th century and how literature has influenced a positive change to shape the society. Moreover, variously all the slaves were subjected to a wrongful treatment, whereby they were starved beaten as well as talked down upon, and they could do nothing to defend themselves since only a few dared to stand for their rights. Nevertheless, in the event that the slaves have the nerves to exercise it they were to approach their master with a well-founded complains against their overseer even though it would have been repulsed (84).

This is evident in the account of Frederick Douglass in the Account of the Lifetime of Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs in the Occurrences in the Lifetime of a Slave Girl, both authors laments about them exists as slaves in America expressing very compelling stories. As soon as his mistress, Mrs. Auld, first imparted him to recite and then his principal, Mr. Auld, protested to this, it exhibited Douglass the reputation of learning. Also, Jacob explains how he could not turn for his protection despite of the slave girl being black or rather fair as her mistress something that cause her being unable to protect her from the insult (Jacobs, pg. As an illustration of how significant it was to Douglass to study how to write as well as reading he stated, "Though cognizant of the struggle of learning deprived of a teacher, I start with high hope, and an immovable purpose, at whatsoever cost of distress, to learn how to read", and with this goal in attention, Douglass did whatsoever it took to study the essentials of writing as well as reading.