Compare how Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass address the issue of slavery.

Choose one of the following topics and write a
well-developed essay of about three to four pages (about 750 1,000 words) in
correct MLA format. You need not quote
from the works you choose, but you must make specific references to the
readings. Do not use any outside sources, and refer only to the works covered
in the class. Upload the paper to the
link on the course MoodlE.

1.
Compare how Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, and
Frederick Douglass address the issue of slavery. What different approaches do
the writers use to get their audiences to understand the injustices of the
situation?

2.
Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper both wrote
when the United States was a very young country. How do they evoke/create a history in which
to place their works? This does not have to be a comparison.

3.
How do Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe embody
principles of Romanticism? Specifically,
how do they create an atmosphere, incorporate supernatural elements, and focus
on the characters emotional states?

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