F._Douglas_And_M.Rolands

F. Douglas And M.Rolands Mary Rowlandson’s, “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” and Frederick Douglass’, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” are separated by 142 years of history, yet their accounts of captivity parallel the occurrences in American under New World conditions and link the span of time between them. Both, Mary Rowlandson and Frederick Douglass experience the evils of slavery against their will, while succumbing to the conditions the New World presents to them. Through their times of desperation, both take comfort in the fact that America is a land of freedom and prosperity to which they will attain salvation. Both of their definitions of America are altered through their encounter of captivity and slavery. America becomes a land of the free that will prosper and remain when all the evils perish and cease to exist upon their escape. Both of these accounts, written after escaping signal the importance of their captivity and the effect it had on each of them. Each account demonstrates the power of the written word as well as strong personal perspective. Mary Rowlandson, a Puritan woman lived in American since childhood. Her matrimony to the Reverend Joseph Rowlandson douglass, america, mary, captivity, slavery, rowlandson, religion, new, land, freedom, faith, both, world, while, view, times, free, frederick, seen, life, gifts, american, accounts, upon, test, strong, out, man, human, god, evils, conditions, after, written, viewed