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North American Slave Narratives database is produced by the University of North Carolina, and it is a collection of African American slave narratives from individuals who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries. You should find an individual’s story that interests you, and develop a paper about their experience. You should be able to construct a biography answering questions about the individual. Why and how did they write the narrative? Where did they grow up? What was their occupation? What was their educational background, if any? How did they write about their experience as a slave? How did they portray their owners? Furthermore, you should grapple with some larger issues in the field of history, such as the reliability of the sources, who wrote the narrative, is there any type of bias present in the narrative, can the source be trusted, etc.? You do not need to engage with each one of these questions, but I expect you to fully analyze the life of the individual you chose and to situate their story into the larger lessons of the course. This paper should reflect your understanding and knowledge of this topic from the course thus far, and you should be able to speak about specific historic instances that support the narrative you chose