LITERARY ANALYSIS
For this assignment, you will be writing an essay that analyzes the theme in the book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. You will select one of the themes below (or another that you discover in the book), and you will support that theme in an essay, using details from the text as support. You must use AT LEAST 3 parenthetical citations. You will be writing this in MLA format.
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- Ignorance as a tool of slavery
- Knowledge as a path to freedom
- The damaging effect of slavery on the slaveholders
- Slaveholding as a perversion of Christianity
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