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Summary: The Slave Narratives

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The Slave Narratives, a total of four autobiography’s written by former slaves; Harriet Jacobs, Oldalf Equiano, Mary Prince and Fredrick Douglas, compiled by professor, historian and filmmaker, Henry Louis Gates Jr. These four authors were former slaves who wrote about their torment in slavery in order to display how slavery had a wretched evil and the poor treatment of African-American slaves with constant physical, mental and sexual abuse and lack of Civil Rights. Each story had some kind of white dominate horrific slave master who would abuse slaves constantly mentally, physically and sexually. The most wretched, and disgusting owner was Dr.Flint in, Incidents of a Slave Girl, written by Harriet Jacobs. Dr. Flint fits perfectly for

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