Textbook Vs. Reality

While reading the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, my mind would return time and time again to the last text I had read regarding American history and in particular, its interpretation of the institution of slavery. And while I recognize the intentions of said history book are to be unbiased in every sense of the word, in doing so they are insulting the memory of so many human beings by not presenting the slave’s account of the institution of slavery. Which in itself cannot be represented by a 3 line quote thrown onto page 52. And while I’m not trying to say that these books have bad intentions, I am saying that they are very objective in their approach. And while maybe it isn't the job of history courses to be human in their teaching of the subject, I would consider it to be fitting for them to assign reading of a first hand account such as the narrative of Frederick Douglas to show the true cruelties of slavery for which no 3rd hand account could ever do. For while the history book’s description of practices slave masters would do unto their slaves show that slavery was cruel, they cannot compare to the spectacle of Douglas’s account of his own aunt being tied to a hook and lashed to oblivion. For no so called objective or unbiased account of slavery can do justice to the unspeakable truths portrayed in Douglas’s memoir. For when Douglas describes the slaves use of singing to expel the sadness which lies in their hearts he is appealing to human emotion which is something other texts fail to do.

How did this bloggers focus differ from yours?

It differed from mine in the way that this blog is trying to answer questions in regards to how modern day western students would have acted in Douglas's situation where I was I was comparing mine to another text.
-Response to http://youknowwhattheysayaboutbrevity.blogspot.com/

It is similar but different in many ways. In being similar, we are both comparing the text to others. He is comparing the book to Django unchained while I was comparing it to another book (a textbook). Although he is trying to say that the message  given in Douglas’s novel is somehow incomplete or at least provides the same insight. I however claimed that Douglas provided a much deeper insight as opposed to others which lack emotion.
--Response to Theparadoxofwit.blogspot.com