Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

Across the autobiographies you have read in the first half of the course, how do the author’s Benjamin Franklin
and Frederick Douglass balance the work of identifying their special achievements and positioning themselves
as replicable models for self-making? Do the different authors do this differently? How so? Why so? What
differences do their historical contexts make (Franklin writing at the end of the 18th century and Douglass from
the middle of the 19th)?
You should create an arguable thesis and draw evidence from Douglass and Franklin. Although you may use
some of the quotes discussed in lecture, your essay should not be totally reliant on evidence already discussed
by Prof Fusco. Instead, you should work to demonstrate your independent ability to read a text and develop an
argument from primary evidence. Your essay should also be sure to situate the writers in terms of lecture
context and at least one other reading from the course.
The very best essays will develop a specific thesis that addresses the two-part question posed here: what’s the
balance Franklin and Douglass strike between positioning themselves as special vs. replicable, and what are
the similarities and differences between how and why they do so. Your thesis should be supported by
paragraphs with clear topic sentences that stake smaller supporting claims for each paragraph and then
analyze quotations as evidence for this claim.

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