Conduct and write a literary analysis about any work you have read in this unit. Reread the work you select, making note of any particular literary element that stands out. Choose the literary element and aspect of the text that you
will examine in your analysis. Follow the procedure outlined below to write your literary analysis. Your paper should be approximately two to three
pages in length. It should include a logical introduction, body, and conclusion that develops and supports your thesis. Include a works cited page as well
as in-text citations in MLA format to document your sources, including the literary text you selected to analyze.

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In the stories “From My Bondage and My Freedom” wrote by Frederick Douglass, and “From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs, the most prominent literary element is theme, and the theme of both stories is slavery.

Explanation:

In the stories “From My Bondage and My Freedom” wrote by Frederick Douglass, and “From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs, the most prominent literary element is theme, and the theme of both stories is slavery. The definition of slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property. Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poorer Europeans.

Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African slaves helped build the new nation into an economic powerhouse through the production of lucrative crops such as tobacco and cotton. By the mid-19th century, America’s westward expansion and the abolition movement provoked a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody Civil War. Though the Union victory freed the nation’s four million slaves, the legacy of slavery continued to influence American history, from the Reconstruction era to the civil rights movement that emerged a century after emancipation.

Slave owners sought to make their slaves completely dependent on them, and a system of restrictive codes governed life among slaves. They were usually prohibited from learning to read and write, and their behavior and movement was restricted. Many masters took sexual liberties with slave women, and rewarded obedient slave behavior with favors, while rebellious slaves were brutally punished. A strict hierarchy among slaves (from privileged house slaves and skilled artisans down to lowly field hands) helped keep them divided and less likely to organize against their masters. Slave marriages had no legal basis, but slaves did marry and raise large families; most slave owners encouraged this practice, but nonetheless did not usually hesitate to divide slave families by sale or removal.

On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation, and on January 1, 1863, he made it official that “slaves within any State, or designated part of a State…in rebellion,…shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” By freeing some 3 million black slaves in the rebel states, the Emancipation Proclamation deprived the Confederacy of the bulk of its labor forces and put international public opinion strongly on the Union side.

Though the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t officially end all slavery in America—that would happen with the passage of the 13th Amendment after the Civil War’s end in 1865—about 186,000 black soldiers would join the Union Army, and about 38,000 would loose their lives

Explanation: rephrase it to your words.

choose from these types:

the innocent

the orphan

the hero

the caregiver

the explorer

the rebel

i would say the correct answer is not concrete.