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Book Summary: The Slave Narratives
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06-1-13.
The Slaves Narratives.Slavery had long been practiced in Africa, but it increased crimes and injustices to humanity by the white slaveholders. All of these narrators (authors) have undergone various hardships in making them who they are – A free person. It exposes the dangers and calamities of slaveholders and also emphasizes the traditional religious ideas of loving your neighbor as yourself, and doing unto others what you want them to do onto you.
Venture Smith was an uneducated slave, whom autobiography (The life and Adventures of Venture) was written by one else. His life reveals the harshness of slavery in New England. He was born of a prince of the tribe of Dukandarra around 1729 in West Africa, but was a resident
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