Frederick Douglass
Slave owners and their sympathizers described blacks in terms of negative stereotypes to justify treating them as property. These stereotypes provided the foundation for the idyllic mythology of the plantation. Slave owners liked to think of themselves as the paternalistic masters of a class of inferior, childlike people who simply could not survive without the kindly guidance of their white superiors. According to the masters' mythology, slaves sang out grateful praise for their bondage. From the great big house of the plantation owner all the way down to the fields where the slaves toiled, all was good and right in How did these carefully edited tales about slavery prevail in the face of the enormous evidence to the contrary? It all depends on who is telling the story. These myths were made by white slave owners, who brutally policed the speech of their slaves in order to crush narratives that challenged this "official" version. Any show
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Approximate Word count = 900
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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