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... It is objective, however, and it is ruminated by authors such as Achebe, Equiano, and Jacobs that ideologies ultimately warrant certain ignorance on a consortium’s behalf, and in this case, compelled enslaved individuals to utilize their acquired knowledge from their slave experience to combat external vices such as prejudices and oppression, and/or personal conflict. ... The District Commissioner is a pompous little man who thinks that he understands indigenous African cultures. ...
In the Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs discusses the failure of a number of ideologies to truly aid her struggle for knowledge, freedom, and her dream of family. The ideologies that Jacobs is well aware of are: the false paternalism of the “peculiar institution” of slavery, the cult of true womanhood/domesticity, and finally, abolitionism. ...
Achebe’s, Equiano’s, and Jacobs’ goals all strive to fight back against the ideologies that perpetuate the notion of Africans being relegated to a permanent underclass.
Approximate Word count = 1157
Approximate Pages = 4.6
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