PRESENTATION

Abolitionist / Civil War

11 Group
 Slavery in the United States

Literary Works in The Era of Civil War

CONTENTS The Book : Narrative of The Life of Frederick

Douglass

Intrinsic Elements
 PART
ONE
“Slavery In The United States”
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED
STATES
Early in the seventeenth century, a Dutch ship loaded with African slaves introduced a solution—and yet paradoxically a new

problem—to the New World. Slaves proved to be economical on large farms where labor-intensive cash crops, such as tobacco, sugar

and rice, could be grown. By the end of the American Revolution, slavery became largely unprofitable in the North and was slowly

dying out. In the upper South the most profitable cash crop was not was not an agricultural product but the sale of human lives.

 Although some southerners owned no slaves at all, by 1860 the South’s “peculiar institution” was inextricably tied to the region’s

economy and society.

Torn between the economic benefits of slavery and the moral and constitutional issues it raised, white southerners grew more

and more defensive of the institution. They argued that black people, like children, were incapable of caring for themselves and that

slavery was a benevolent institution that kept them fed, clothed, and occupied, and exposed them to Christianity.  Most northerners did

not doubt that black people were inferior to whites, but they did doubt the benevolence of slavery.

The outbreak of the Civil War forever changed the future of the American nation and perhaps most notably the future of

Americans held in bondage. The war began as a struggle to preserve the Union, not a struggle to free the slaves but as the war dragged
 PART
TWO
“Literary Works In The Era Of Civil War”
THE LIST OF BOOK

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (1851–

52)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American

Slave, Written by Himself (1845)

Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World… (1829)

Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave (1847)

The Liberator (1831–65)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah

Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by
Himself (1789)

Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688)

 PART
THREE
“The Book : Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass”
 SUMMARY ABOUT THE STORY

A z k y

Chapters 1-4 Chapters 5-7 Chapters 6-9 Chapters 10-11

Frederick Douglass’s dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.His
gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins, and manors of pre-Civil War plantations in the South
and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave.
PART
FOUR
“Intrinsic Elements”
CHARACTER
Edward Covey Willian Lloyd
Frederick Douglass

Sandy Jenskin Edward Lloyd

Aaron Anthony

Lucretia Auld Anna Murray

Captain Thomas Auld Wendell Philips

Hugh Auld

Mrs. Sophia Auld Mr. Severe

Mr. Freeland
 SETTING

Time :
Pre- Civil War

Place :
Maryland, New York, and Bedford,
Massachusetts
 Narrator Point Of View

First Person (Central)

Douglass's narrative is, as the title page tells us, "Written By Himself." He's
the book's main character – almost the only character – so most of the
narrative is just him talking to us about himself.
 GENRE, TONE, AND WRITING
STYLE

WRITING STYLE
Old-Fashioned, Elevated, Plain, Personal, GENRE
Biblical
W G Autobiography, Propaganda, Coming-of-Age

PLOT ANALYSIS P
Most good stories start with a fundamental list
of ingredients: the initial situation, conflict,
complication, climax, suspense, denouement,
T TONE
Cool, Reserved, Angry, Emotional

and conclusion
THANKS