After watching the documentary “Slavery and the Making of America, Part III” I would like for you to reflect on how this documentary broadened or enhanced your understanding of our unit on American slavery — particular, how did it help you to better understand the genre of the slave narrative, like those written by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs? In this regard, you might decide to write about how the documentary’s focus on Jacob’s helped you to understand her narrative in a more impactful way. Or rather, you might focus on why you think the documentary focused on Harriet Jacobs’s narrative so intently, rather Douglass’s. What literary/rhetorical impact did this decision of focusing on Jacob’s narrative have on the particular way the documentary recounts the historical development of American slavery? 
Finally, you could also choose to reflect on the relationship between image and text when it comes to documenting the historical reality of slavery and its institutional brutality and collective trauma. Do you think images of slavery (in films, documentary, museums, photographs, etc.) are now more impactful as an educative historical tools than the older literary tool of the textual narrative (slave narratives, novels, poems, articles, essays, etc.)?If so, why? What role can literature still play in educating future Americans into the horrific reality of American slavery’s ugly history?  
Documentary: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x166hi5