Research Paper on:
Reality and Slave Narratives

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What was real to one person may not have been real to another. It is the same twentieth century thought, that each of us create our own reality.  We naturally believe that there are times when those realities Bbslvnar.doc SLAVE NARRATIVE: How Real is Real  Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., July 2001 Note to the student: There is no bibliography sheet for this sample paper since,  one of your sources was listed in the assignment and the other is included in the text itself. You may choose to add a bibliography sheet and repeat the material  if you wish. Introduction Our posed question for this discussion is the comparison of a slave narrative with Brenda Stevensons depiction of slavery in the book Life in Black and  White: Family and Community in the Slave South. (1998) The temptation when reading history is to remember to talk about perceptions. What was real to one person may  not have been real to another. It is the same twentieth century thought, that each of us create our own reality. We naturally believe that there are times  when those realities overlap, but that hardly seems the case in the discussion of these two works. The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman. Worcester, Mass.: [s.n.],  1889. 47 p. The introduction to Ms Bethanys work is made by Bishop Mallaieu. He says of her: Betty Veney may have been born a slave, but the  pure soul that looked out of her flashing eyes was never in bondage to any miserable being calling himself her master. Redeemed from the galling yoke her body was compelled