IMAGES ARE IN THE ATTACHMENTS Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave Choose one q

IMAGES ARE IN THE ATTACHMENTS Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave Choose one question to address. As you do so, link Northup’s narrative to at least one image from lectures 10-11 that has relevant connections to Northup’s story. Slavery’s defenders often questioned the credibility of slave narratives. Why would they question their truthfulness? How does Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave address the issue of veracity? How do the title, the rhetorical strategy, the surrounding material, and elements of the text itself address—directly or indirectly—this question? Northup has a complex relationship to nineteenth-century Christianity. How does religion factor into Twelve Years a Slave? Does the text justify “Christian” slaveholding? Does it question (or illustrate) religion’s role in upholding slavery as an institution?

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