Frederick Douglass

  Write an analytical essay about one of the following books answering the following questions: 1) Identify a thesis or purpose of the author; 2) Who is the author’s audience? ; 3) What is the historical importance of this work?; and 4) Does the author succeed in proving his thesis or purpose? Choose one from the following books: Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. Castaways. Bartolomé de Las Casas. The Destruction of the Indies. Frederick Douglass. My Bondage, My Freedom. Oladuah Equiano. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oladuah Equiano. Benjamin Franklin, Louis Mansur ed. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, et. al. The Federalist Papers. Harriet Jacobs. Incidents in the Live of a Slave Girl. Thomas Jefferson. The Portable Jefferson. Solomon Northup, Twelve Years, A Slave. Miguel León-Portilla. Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine Reader. Henry David Thoreau. Portable Thoreau. Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America (abridged editio