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Judging Laura, Rebecca E. Richardson
Judging Laura, Rebecca E. Richardson
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
Laura Audax is a sixteen-year-old girl who has an interesting set of characteristics. She is a dynamic mixture of compassion, stubbornness, brilliance, recklessness, imagination, and arrogance. The way the world understands these personality traits has transformed and evolved over time. If a girl like Laura lived in four different time periods, society would react differently to her in each era, but the overall question is how different these reactions really are. Does the definition of what makes certain personality traits “good” or “bad” change over time?
The following four stories take place in 1850, 1920, 2015, and 2100 respectively, and …
A Narrative Of The Torments And Unlikely Freedom Of A Child Slave, Hanna Taylor
A Narrative Of The Torments And Unlikely Freedom Of A Child Slave, Hanna Taylor
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
Betsey Simons: Freedom At What Cost?, Anthony Maristany
Betsey Simons: Freedom At What Cost?, Anthony Maristany
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
Earth And Ashes, Michele Mobley
Earth And Ashes, Michele Mobley
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
Her Taste Of Freedom, Orlandra Dickens
Her Taste Of Freedom, Orlandra Dickens
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
Nameless People, Keep Trekking, Brandi Webster
Nameless People, Keep Trekking, Brandi Webster
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
The Hill, Named After Some White Man, O’Shane Elliott
The Hill, Named After Some White Man, O’Shane Elliott
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
The Example, Nate Bradley
The Example, Nate Bradley
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
The Match, Marcus Hines
The Match, Marcus Hines
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.