Before the Slave Narrative
I expect that this narrative will very interesting because it was written from the male persepective that was usually forced to do more work than the women who sometimes became house hands but still did field work. The men played a large role in many of the manual labor jobs on the souther plantations and to hear a perspective of a man who grew up as a slave and was born into it would be very interesting compared to a slave owners view or someone who was three generations freed. Many things that we have read about slavery this year have been accounts that are recorded through history but not actually the pain and years of agony that is revealed through a first person account. The view point that this is going to give me will change the way I thought growing up as a young child in slavery was. By growing up as a slave and working at a young age, I’m sure Isaac Mason had a very different perspective than anyone who was a outside account.
