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Enriching the “Rags-to-Riches” Myth

In the conclusion to his essay "Autobiography and the Making of America" (1980), Robert F. Sayre stated that he had attempted "to demonstrate the relationship between ideas of America and a number of different or even contradictory kinds of American autobiography" (167). He offered the image of an "American mandala or a horizontal wheel with four points-a compass rose of four significant American directions," in which he placed Benjamin Franklin in the East, although "looking to the West and other directions to the new American" who one day would imitate him; Franklin's Autobiography would be a text where his life stands as "a kind of instrument to be studied and adopted by other men who wished to become prosperous and useful." In the South, Sayre would locate Frederick Douglass, who "used his life as an instrument of persuasion," and he made clear that the South did not imply just a geographic direction, but a different condition, whereby "he and other black or once excluded people told a story that would change the national character or renew it by making it responsive to conditions it had previously ignored," since "to Douglass and other former victims, the axis of America did not lie East and West between tradition and opportunity but between oppression and freedom. And the freedom needed renewal