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Dbq On A Slave Women's Tale
Shaquelle Ryals
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WC: 315 A Slave Women’s Tale 1. The document was written by an interviewer. 2. The document was written to give insight in the life of a slave woman. 3. The document is biased. The document is biased because Annie Coley was talking about slave life, but in the document she was only talking about her family’s life in slavery. (“We bought Sunday clothes. We got to rest three days at Christmas. We had a big dinner, but Boss gave us that out of his smokehouse.”) When Annie Coley says that, she is only referring to her own family during the slave days. She is not talking about slavery as a whole. 4. The document’s intended audience was basically the whole world; anybody who read it. 5. The
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