There is no doubting the fact that slavery has been and always will be a controversial issue. What makes it even more complicated is the conflicting accounts of the slaves’ experiences. The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass and Beloved both use a unique storytelling device – constructing a present from the unspeakable stories of the past. They take the psychic scars of slavery, scars that cover an entire nation, and shrink them down to a very …showed first 75 words of 731 total…

…showed last 75 words of 731 total…is based upon a book that is based on research done 200 years after the fact and then further filtered by Hollywood. I don’t think any one point of view can be complete, but to me a first-hand account is more believable than second-hand hearsay. This is not to diminish the movie or say that all slaves had no affection for their mother, but to me Douglass’ case is more credible, because it is true.