Booker T. Washington

Critics have pointed out that Booker T. Washington in Up From Slavery adopts Frederick Douglass's slave narrative. Where does Washington copy the central elements/themes of the slave narrative? More importantly, how does he rework those elements/themes, endowing them with a different meaning or significance?

William Wells Brown II -- The Georgiana Issue

Clearly, Georgiana is an antislavery advocate. In the last part of the book, what do you think about the choices she made when it came to her slaves? Do you think Brown viewed her -- a northerner by education and sentiment -- as he viewed the North -- "prejudice[d] . . . on account of color"? In the last part of the story, how does Brown represent Georgiana?

William Wells Brown

How do Reverend Peck and Carlton differ on the importance of the Bible/Christianity to the slaves? How does Georgiana mediate their disagreement?