ferently, certainly, than Douglass would. He also wanted to make sure that the story would be historically correct. Dennis Pahl states:
             "Concerned as Melville is with both the material facts of history as well as with the material consequences of historical form, "Benito Cereno" gives ample testimony to Melville's interest in keeping a vigilant eye not only on the violences inherent in, and resulting from, the institution of slavery, but also on the epistemic violences inherent within any narrative construction of that institution's past." (21)
             Both Melville's and Douglass' frames of reference will compliment each other in the discussion on the human nature of the slaves and how the slaves reacted from instinct to rebel.
             Slaves had lives that were unbelievable to people in the present time. In Douglass' Narrative, Douglass displays this life very well when he talks about the daily routine he and others encountered. They did not have beds and he explains why they did not even bother to worry about having a bed.
             "They find less difficulty from the want of beds, than from the want of time to sleep; for when their day's work in the field is done, the most of them having their washing, mending, and cooking to do, and having few or none of the ordinary facilities for doing either of these, very many of their sleeping hours are consumed in preparing for the field
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