Watch this lesson’s videos on the Lost Cause Myth and read my notes on those myths. Describe how Douglass attacks one or more of the key elements of the myths surrounding slavery in his Narrative of the Life. Provide specific evidence from the text in the form of quotations with page numbers in your answer.
Your initial post should be at least 300 words. Quotations do not count towards this word count.
Respond thoughtfully and substantively to two of your classmates.
As you learn about the Lost Cause Myth, recognize that it reinforces ideas about how society should be ordered, including myths about the realities of slavery, that started before the Civil War.
These myths include:
That enslaving black people is “natural”
That enslaved people thrived on plantations
That black people were better suited to hard work and felt less pain when being abused
That slaveowners were benevolent and took good care of enslaved people
That enslaved people wanted to stay on the plantations once they were free (I highly recommend this letter a formerly enslaved person wrote to his enslaver)Links to an external site.
Douglass directly addresses many of these myths in his Narrative.
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