Slavery is an issue that was controversial in the Nineteenth Century. Both Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass are examples of literature that are about slavery. They display the life of a slave and how the slaves dealt with their situations. In each story, the slaves rebelled against the owners. The slaves had an instinct that made them revolt in this way when their lives were at …showed first 75 words of 1895 total…

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