Louis Gates Jr.

and awfully literary but fine writer is clearly

David Wilson rather than Solomon Northup

Mr. Olney wrote."

LOGOS: "for decades scholars have been trying to untangle

the literal truth of Mr. Northup's account from the conventions

of the antislavery literary genre

PATHOS: writing awful literary 

was a slave and he got asked to

tell about his life as a slave !!

to tell his story of experience in slavery to

an antislavery convention, and when they

subsequently sponsored the appearance

of that story in print, they had certain clear

expectations, well understood by themselves

and well understood by the ex-slave, too,"

-James Olney

commenced beating me.

   got to explain the information on how it was like

    to be a slave.

grew tired again then the blows were renewed."

his tale would not be taken for granted, and that,

on a certain peculiar but familiar level enforced

by rituals along the color line, his narrative would

be viewed as a fiction competing with other fictions,"

wrote Mr. Stepto.

Slaves use to get beat if they did

something wrong and if they told

the truth there owners would not

believe a single word they said ...

to nothing else than the burning agonies

of hell!

hand and the guy painfully on the ground."

his family

battle against his abductors. Then there is all the essay to

his story