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The way the former slaves claim that the book is written by themselves shows that they have pride in themselves and want to prove they are not inferior to the whites.

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First in Equiano's narrative it is necessary to establish that slaves are people you can sympathize with, then Douglass shows how slavery denies this and strips slaves of their humanity.

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Harriet Jacobs placed emphasis on her relations with her family and her experiences specifically as a woman, making her narratives appeal more to the women of the era and making her experiences more accessible or relatable to her audience, especially the females vs Douglass who emphasizes himself more. Parallels with Douglass by appealing to her humanity.

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It is clear from how much religion is mentioned and how the importance of religion is described as a focus in many slave narratives, that religion and how it was used to help slaves deal with slavery, will be a common theme. "The acceptance of God's grace over the horrors experienced in slavery."

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this is like the "Me Too" movement in that, if one or two people speak out against an issue, a lot of people will then take this initiative and follow up with it and support it. It takes only a few people to start something that can expand to a much larger group.

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Frrederick Douglass' carefully selected adjectives to depict the humanity of the slaves and highlight the cruelty of the system.

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Interesting how Olaudah makes an economic rather than a moral argument against slavery, very different from other narratives of the time

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Beginning the narrative with the statement of being born shows how the slave is a human which builds on to the fact that they are the same as the whites that had enslaved them

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Spirit/spirituality seems to play a big part in literature concerning slavery. Early slave literature seems to cover how slaves became "enlightened" by religion, which allowed them to be free from slavery, while in this part Douglass talks about how slaves's souls were crushed into submission, breaking them down into submissive slaves, meaning that a slave's religious strength/soul directly correlated to their willingness to be free.

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I thought that the fact that the slave narrative created a genre for later fictional accounts of it really shows the power of the genre and its impact on the culture of American literature as a whole.

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Douglass and Jacobs used different backgrounds in almost the same structure by humanizing themselves first as Douglass states he was born and Jacobs stresses her position as a woman. Jacobs focuses on her reliance on family and community to humanize herself and other slaves, and she illustrates her story through anecdotes; Douglass changes this to talk about how he succeeded through independent drive which came from his strong desire and commitment to other slaves, and he also uses anecdotes to illustrate his various experiences. They have different takes on community and how to use anecdotes, but they both use the same overall structure; they also appeal to logos in their anecdotal stories

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makes the audience sympathetic and stresses Douglass's capability to succeed even under the conditions he had to endure

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It caught my eye when the document said how Douglass and many other writers start off with the line "I was born". This phrase shows the slave's attempt to humanize themselves in the eyes of whites, appealing to their audience. Writing a slave narrative is extremely difficult because one needs to humanize themselves while saying that they have been dehumanized.

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Although he was a former-slave, Douglass puts himself on the same level as whites who may be judging his point of view.  Douglass refers to slaves as being a illiterate, uneducated nearly animals, separating himself from them.

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Douglas establishes his ethos by associating himself with other abolitionists already famous in introduction.

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As time has passed, the structure of the slave narrative has changed to incorporate ideas of all aspects of slavery. He states that in these slave narratives, he uses the words "I was born" to humanize himself. In other words, he uses this to put himself on the same level as his white peers.

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The popularity of the narratives, such as Douglass' , were because of his reformulation/extension of already prominent White American themes, inarguable and evasive of pity.

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Slave narratives began with shorter texts centered around religious conversion and how that leads to freedom; this is because of the climate (more appeal emotionally?) --> however, it shifts to from the conversion narrative to outlining the actual horrors of slavery and how it affects the slaves --> Douglass focuses on the self-made man and how his own work provided his freedom, unlike Equiano's Protestant freedom. Is this shift due to societal/political pressure, in order to persuade the authors' audience?

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Douglass changed the structure of his slave narratives to suit the situation of slavery while satisfying the self-made man basis which appealed to his audience likely because he seemed more human and gained respect from his readers for his achievements. How did this strategy affect his popularity?

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Earlier in the text it stated that slavery would break down even the strongest, most resistant person, but writers can't show this or else it will preserve the idea that slaves are "pitiable victims and thus potentially lessening their political effect."