The seventeenth-century tradition of captivity narratives

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1. How does Frederick Douglass learn to read? Why does literacy become so important to him?

2. How do slave narratives recast the American ideal of the "self-made man" to fit African Americans? How does Frederick Douglass, for example, build on and transform the legacy of Benjamin Franklin?

3. How do slave narratives draw on the seventeenth-century tradition of captivity narratives?

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