”A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” and ”Justification of Slavery’
The purpose of this assignment is to use the primary source analysis techniques you learned in class during the semester to produce a final essay.
Read the two attached primary source documents (below), ”A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” and ”Justification of Slavery”.
Then write a paper that addresses the following questions:
Who wrote the documents and why?
How do the two documents agree? How do they disagree?
Why are the perspectives different?
Under what specific historical circumstances were these documents created?
Are the sources consistent with what you know about the historical time period?
Are there historical perspectives omitted by the sources?
Which perspective would you agree with more, and why?
