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Write a well developed essay answering one of the writing prompts below. You should include at least three (3) outside scholarly sources. Make sure that you adhere to MLA guidelines throughout the entire paper. This paper will count as both your paper related to Romanticism.

1. Scholars have written that in most autobiographies “truth, history and divinity met as the autobiographer struggled to reveal his or her inner character.” As you read Douglass’ Appendix to his narrative, how does this observation of scholars apply to Douglass’s narrative? Please cite specific events and passages in the book to illustrate this thesis.

2. Although a number of slave narratives were published before Emancipation, Frederick Douglass’s autobiography became the most noted and celebrated of these. Analyze the reasons for this fact and support your thesis with specific historical data about slave narratives in general and specific quotations from Douglass’s autobiography.

3. Douglass maintains that slavery dehumanized both the slave and slaveholder. Quoting specific passages in the Narrative support this thesis with examples.

4. Douglass defines freedom as more than escape from the slaveholders. What is freedom according to Douglass and how does he achieve it? Make sure to cite specific examples from the Narrative.