With Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, we have two of the most significant American literary figures writing the way out of slavery. Yet, these two texts are very different in their literary mode, authors’ life experiences of slavery, and intended audience. For this blog, I want you to focus just on how the texts work and not discuss biography. Please write 250-300 words to make two comparisons. Each comparison should have one passage from Douglass and one from Stowe. Each comparison will do close reading work on both passages involved. This is not a preference exercise of one over the other, but an articulation of divergent approaches to the same issue. (As an example, you might pick passages that engage with gender, family/children/parents, Christianity and slavery, and, yes, animals…)
Post the blog by 10am Friday.
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