... political motive may have led authors to exaggerate the cruelties they suffered. Frederick Douglass, probably the most famous writer of slave narratives, confessed to doing this. In Frederick Douglass; New literary and Historical Essays Sundquist tells how "his charges of brutality against Thomas Auld were deliberately inaccurate". Douglass later apologised to Auld for this, admitting that his intention was to make ... ...

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1. According to Henry Louis Gates, almost 50% of the Afro-American literary tradition was created when "it's authors and their black readers were either slaves or former slaves". 2. Slave narratives were produced for many reasons. One was to inform others of the ... ...

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