Read the following passages. Identify the genre and subgenre of each excerpt, state the theme that all three share, and then compare and contrast the differences in the way the different genres develop that theme. Note: Douglass' work was written before the Civil War, and the other pieces were published after the Civil War.
Passage A: (From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass)
"Sunday was my only leisure time. I spent this in a sort of beast-like stupor, between sleep and wake, under some large tree. At times I would rise up, a flash of ene

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Read the following passages. Identify the genre and subgenre of each excerpt, state the theme that all three share, and then compare and contrast the differences in the way the different genres develop that theme. Note: Douglass' work was written before the Civil War, and the other pieces were published after the Civil War.
Passage A: (From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass)
"Sunday was my only leisure time. I spent this in a sort of beast-like stupor, between sleep and wake, under some large tree. At times I would rise up, a flash of ene