Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Long Song
- Antebellum
- Slave narrative
- Depictions of American slaves
- The unheard voice
- Shows the end of slavery in
Southern America
- Struggles
surrounding
- Pivotal historical event
- Setting
- Plantation
- Hundreds of slaves kept
- Seen as property
- Lack of humanity:
dehumanized
- Seen when July's mother is
pregnant, and her owner
hits her
- Reflects on the act of
witnessing in historical accounts
- Identity
- What it is to be a slave
- First person narrative:
perspective of a slave
- What it is to be a Black Woman
- Struggles and torments
of life
- Death
- A lot of death in the text
- Highlights how the slaves
weren't seen as humans to
their owners; recycled
- Life in July; death in her mother