Slave+Narrative

=Slave Narrative= > A slave narrative is an autobiographical account of life as a slave. It is often written to expose the horrors of human bondage; it documents a slave's experiences from his or her own point of view. > > **Example**: "The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror inconceivable (The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oluadah Equiano)." > > From the quote above, the reader sees that the story is told directly from a slave's point of view. In this case, like many others, the slave narrates the harsh treatment given to the Africans and African-Americans from the eighteenth century. Slaves were tightly compacted next to each other. Every one of them (sometimes ships carried around 800 slaves) had a six by three foot area in which to sleep, go to the bathroom, and sometimes die. > > > > [|Click here to read The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oluadah Equiano]

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