Early Short Fictions. The Significance of Stereotypes in "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,8, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: This paper analyzes Frederick Douglass’s African American novella and only work of fiction “The Heroic Slave”, which was published in 1852. The story is based on a slave revolt on board the Creole and Douglass invents the prehistory for the leader Ma...