One way I believe that this image directly correlates to what we’ve been talking about in class is the idea that slave stories and narratives are getting pushed under. They had to constantly fight to have their perspective pushed into the mainstream media.  As we’ve learned about Douglas’s narrative and also Jacob’s narrative there was this constant struggle and fight to try to get their narratives and perspectives out into the North. They would do this so that more Northern white people would begin to understand the horrors of slavery and fight against it. This image is a perfect representation of that, upon doing a little bit of digging I was able to find out that the man in this photo was an actual slave who was able to free himself and who began to work for an abolitionist magazine in which this photo was taken. What’s truly amazing however is when you begin to look for these slave narratives and these people telling their stories you begin to find a lot of them. Wilson then uses this image as a way to write his own slave narrative the torture devices that are put around him show his past and how he was treated. The coat in the clothes he’s wearing shows that he was able to overcome this gain his freedom and become his own person. I had never heard or even knew about this person and a lot of the history I choose to research for myself comes from this time. While Douglas and many others like him may provide excellent narratives and show us what slavery looked like there was so much more in so many other experiences and perspectives we don’t say simply because they are not put in the mainstream media. They have been washed out and cast out and unless certain people come looking for them they will continue to stay hidden forever. Similar to Douglas, Wilson is also self-authenticating his slave narrative by choosing to place his name on it. He could have just easily chosen to have the Publishers or the name of the article placed but rather chose his name specifically.