History Question
For your research paper, you will select one of the following travel/captivity narratives, read it, and analyze it. Write a paper that explores a question that arises from your reading of the text. 5-7 pages.
You might frame your questions along the following lines:
What was the motivation for writing this specific narrative, and how did that motivation shape the story?
How can we understand the experience of encountering and learning another culture through this narrative?
What does the narrative reveal about cultural ideas about race, gender, religion, etc.?
Can we trust the narrative? If so, how do we know? If not, what does it reveal in spite of its particular flawed lens?
And so on.
Your essay should offer an argument, and you are required to consult a minimum of two peer-reviewed secondary sources to provide context and background information.
Link to the sources that need to be used in this research paper are directly below:
1.Book: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African http://www.gutenberg.
2. https://www.jstor.org/
3.https://www.litcharts.com/
Requirements: 5-7 pages
Answer preview
Slavery is one of the most dehumanizing aspects of society. Even though most people in contemporary society do not have a first-hand account of the destructiveness and the harms associated with slavery, they find the practice abhorrent and distasting. This perception of slavery, though not wrong, is primarily informed by the various historical texts and scholarly discourse on the matter. To some extent, their perception of slavery might be skewed, mainly because most of the academic discourse on this practice has focused on slavery from the lenses of the interaction between Africans, Europeans, and Americans. Specifically, slavery as depicted
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