Narratives

I truly enjoyed reading these narratives. I found that they gave a lot of information about what they are doing now, today, with their lives now that they are free. Almost every other narrative that I have read, only talks about their slavery experiences. I always found myself wondering what ex-slaves lives are like today and these narratives gave me a glimpse. The narrative that I particularly enjoyed was the narrative of Charity Anderson. I found Charities narrative to be interesting because she mentions that her slave live was better then her life is now. I can’t imagine any black referring to the time of slavery as “the good old days,” yet Charity does. I thought about this for a while and I couldn’t figure out why she might think this way. Maybe it’s because she doesn’t get out much now, or that she misses her friends/family I don’t know, I suppose it really could have been better for her as a slave then it was for her after she was free, I just don’t know.
Another part of these narratives that I particularly enjoyed was reading their dialect. Although hard to understand at times, I found the narratives dialect to be very interesting. I found Lucinda Davis’ dialect to be the most interesting. There was a lot of it so you were able to get a real sense of voice in her narrative and I felt like I was actually at the table sitting down and talking with her during parts of the reading. I enjoyed reading Lucinda’s narrative most because I found a lot of humor in her writing. Although a lot of the narratives were humorous in parts I really enjoyed reading Lucinda’s.