How do the works of each of the authors assigned this semester help us to understand what African-Americans were escaping from and what they were working toward as “a people”?

Over this semester we have viewed the development of an African-American culture and society as the creation of a “nation within a nation” and an “imagined community” that continues to be an essential part of American thought and culture. How do the works of each of the authors assigned this semester help us to understand what African-Americans were escaping from and what they were working toward as “a people”? The Rubric * Do you respond to the questions posed in the prompt? * Do you make effective use of quotations from the assigned texts? * Do you bring in supporting evidence from course lectures? * Is it always clear when you, the student author, is speaking and when you are quoting someone else (using quotation marks)? * Do you se Chicago citation style? (see the PDF file in the Canvas files for this course) * Have you proof read your paper for errors in grammar and spelling? Length: 2,000 words (inclusive of endnotes/footnotes) Please Double Space Your Essay Olaudah Equiano Brycchan Carey, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Martin Robison Delany, The Condition, Elevation Emigration and Destine of the Colored People of the United States Frederick Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass