Answer five (5) of the following questions in 1-2 paragraphs. 6-8 sentences
1. Based on the poetry of Phyllis Wheatley, what can you infer about the extent of her education? How does her educational accomplishment affect the European and colonial view, during slavery, that Blacks were incapable of learning?
2. Wheatley has been criticized for not addressing the issues affecting her fellow slaves during the time she wrote. Do you agree with this criticism? If so, why? If not, state your reasons.
3. How does the representation of slavery in Harriet Jacobss narrative differ from that which youve read in other slave narratives?
4. How does representation of freedom in Jacobss narrative differ from that in other narratives?
5. Discuss Jacobss choice of war metaphor to describe her struggle with Flint. How does she define violence?
6. Examine Jacobss preface to her narrative. She insists that her story is no fiction, but that her descriptions do fall short of the facts. Discuss the implications of her statement.
7. Discuss the effect of slavery on children as Booker T. Washington, Olaudah Equiano, and Harriet Jacobs describe it. What variation between the authors do you detect? Is there a difference based on the gender of the author?
8. Support or refute the notion that Booker T. Washington refuses to verify that slavery as a brutal and evil institution.
9. Discuss W.E. B. DuBois ideas of the veil and double consciousness.
10. Arthur Schomburg offers several reasons that African Americans should learn about their history. Discuss one of these reasons.
11. How does Alain Locke characterize what he calls the New Negro? Do you think that his definition applied to the writers in the Harlem Renaissance? Be sure to indicate specific writers and their works.
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