1. DO NOW
What were slave codes? How did slave codes affect slaves’ lives? Give examples.

2. Slave Narratives February 17, 2010 Objectives:
Identify characteristics of slave narratives.
Analyze a slave narrative.

3. Definitions Slave Narrative Dialect
Primary sources telling the story of slaves
Dialect
A way of speaking particular to a specific place or region

4. Slave Narratives
Early narratives were written by freed slaves who received an education
Examples: Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano

5. Slave Narratives
Later narratives were mostly interviews of former slaves gathered by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s
Over 2,000 stories were recorded

6. 5 Functions of Slave Narratives
1. To document the conditions of or “truth” about slavery; 2. To encourage the abolition of slavery; 3. To provide religious inspiration; 4. To assert the narrator’s personhood; 5. To challenge stereotypes about blacks.