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No Such Thing As A Slave Narrative: Abba, Coobah, And Sally, Shelby K. Miller
No Such Thing As A Slave Narrative: Abba, Coobah, And Sally, Shelby K. Miller
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Within history, there is a push to combine and generalize individual experiences into a single narrative. However, individual slaves lived massively different lives even when they lived on the same planation. My presentation will focus on three specific slaves from Thomas Thistlewood’s sugar cane plantation in Jamaica. These three women lived in the same place, experienced the same brutality, and yet all responded differently to their trauma. I will agree that historians cannot create a comprehensive slave narrative because of these varying and greatly contrasting lives.