Slave Narratives- Reaching a white audience by Kelly Carlin

Reaching white people through religion

2017-02-23 17:44:43 UTC

¨learned you this from your god, who says unto to you, do unto all them as you would men should do unto you¨ Using the religion (christianity) many slaves were forced to convert to to support own cause (abolition).
WORD CHOICE
"dejection and sorrow" "brutal cruelty" "abandoned to despair"
MARIA MICHAEL RENATA CHARLOTTE SABRINA

Plays with Audience's Emotions Through Depressing Tone and Diction

2017-02-23 17:45:47 UTC

"I had the least desire to taste anything"
"I now wished for the last friend, death"
"I even wished for my former slavery...which was filled with horrors of every kind"
"The shrieks of women, and the groans of the dying"
"Fear and apprehensions."

Jack, Marcos, Zack, John, Jackie

2017-02-23 17:48:41 UTC

Used rhetorical questions toward the end very well to make audience analyze their own morals -- Episodes as a whole were very emotional (PATHOS)

Uses a motif of darkness to emphasize her loneliness

2017-02-24 19:11:38 UTC

- had too go into hiding in a dark shed--> confinement to her own segregated area, couldn't even see her own children
- no one to help her with her traumatizing childhood bc her mom and grandma died early
"slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows"
"If I knelt by my mother's grave, his dark shadow fen on me even there"
Word choices:
- "vile monster"
- "silent as the grave"
- "bad omen"
- "demon Slavery"

Use of Euphemism/Allusion

2017-02-28 17:17:57 UTC

Author does not explicitly describe rape, but uses diction "stormy, terrific ways, that made victim tremble," "foul words in my ear," "violating the most sacred commandments of nature." --> rape would be too grotesque & would eliminate large portion of audience. ~Parker, Bea, Juliette, Gillian

Repetition and Allusion to Ram a Point Home

2017-02-28 17:19:23 UTC

"I was never cruelly... I was never lacerated... I was never so beaten... I never had my heel-strings cut..."
This quote repeats "I was never" to pile on adjectives about the horrors that slaves experience, to show how slaves were treated like property.

"Swearing by heaven and earth he would compel me to submit to him..."
This quote alludes to the horrors of rape to show how slaves were dehumanized by their masters.

Word choices:
"helpless victim", "tighten the yoke", "brutalized by slavery", "silent as the grave", "I was his property"

-Rahul, Hadley, Zara, Catherine

<-- Hunter + Monique

2017-02-28 17:21:57 UTC

2017-02-28 17:22:27 UTC

<-- Hunter + Monique

2017-02-28 17:29:35 UTC

The rhetorical strategy here is pathos, making an emotional appeal to the audience.