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Masking In The Escape By William Wells Brown

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The play The Escape; or, a leap for freedom by William Wells Brown presents realistic situations from the era of slavery. Brown provides interacts between slave owners, their mistresses and slaves. The play also presents the idea of slaves masking their true identities. Slaves would often act one way toward their white owner, and act another way in private. In this play masking came from the slaves in order to gain trust, and out smart their slave owners as a form of survival. The character Cato was a prime example of masking among the slaves. He was able to outsmart and gain the trust of his slave owners, in order to escape to freedom. The play starts out with Cato and Dr. Gains; his slave owner working at the doctor’s office. Cato was

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