Letter From Frederick Douglass

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English

 

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Brian M

 

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October 12, 2015

 

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University

 

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In this essay I will look at a letter from Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave, to Thomas Auld, his former master. The correspondence was in the form of an open public letter to Auld on the tenth anniversary of Douglass' abolition. The letter could be considered an "autoethnographic text" which Mary Louise Pratt defines in her essay, Arts of the Contact Zone, "a text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations others have made of them" (519)...
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I will analyze the different points that make this unique piece of literature an art of the contact zone. Douglass begins his letter by describing the duos' relationship as "long and intimate, though by no means friendly." He goes on to point out that even after he had run away and emancipated himself from the torturous life of slavery, Auld continued to express his "ownership" of Douglass by posting fliers offering a sum for his arrest (Douglass 1)...
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