American Voices: Listening to Fiction, Poetry, and Prose

Notes

1. Documenting the American South. "Frederick Douglass: 1818-1895. ,(The University Library: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass/bio.html (accessed July 8, 2008).

2. Jacqueline Bacon. The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition. (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2002): 9.

3. Dr. Burkhard Henke, Davidson College, July 2008

4. Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. (New York, NY: The Penguin Group, 1997): 22.

5. Bacon, The Humblest May Stand Forth, 25.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. Douglass, Narrative, 22.

9. Ibid, 66.

10. Ibid, 19.

11. Bacon, The Humblest May Stand Forth, 65.

12. Ibid, 65.

13. Ibid, 66.

14. Peter Elbow. Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing. (Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994): 86.

15. Elbow, Landmark Essays, 87.

16. Ibib, 90.

17. Bacon, May the Humblest Stand Forth, 1.

18. Robert Frost. Collected Poems, Prose and Plays. (NY: Library of America, 1995): 664.

19. Dr. Langdon Hammer, Yale University, July 2008.

20. Frost, Collected Poems, 687.

21. Bacon, May the Humblest Stand Forth, 1.

22. Ibid, 63.

23. Douglass, Narrative, 74.

24. Donald B. Gibson. "Reconciling Public and Private in Frederick Douglass's Narrative," American Literature, Vol. 57, No. 4 (December, 1985), http://www.jstor.org/stable/2926352?seq=21 (accessed July 12, 2008): 552.

25. Phillip Foner. "Frederick Douglass, September 3, 1848, Letter to Thomas Auld," Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings. (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999).

26. Douglass, Narrative, 53.

27. Foner, "Frederick Douglass."

28. Douglass, Narrative, 53.

29. Foner, "Frederick Douglass."

30. Foner, "Frederick Douglass."

31. Foner, "Frederick Douglass."

32. Douglass, Narrative, 117.

33. Elbow, Landmark Essays, 87.

34. Bacon, May the Humblest Stand Forth, 65.

35. Idib.

36. Instructional Strategies Online. "What is Raft," (Saskatoon Public Schools, 2004-2008), http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/raft/ (accessed July 12, 2008).

37. Frost, Collected Poems, 665.