The document summarizes Frances Smith Foster's argument that slave narratives followed a five-point structure based on the Judeo-Christian myth of salvation. This structure included a fall from innocence into slavery, mortification and suffering under slavery, a conversion or decision to flee slavery, the struggle of escape, and finally freedom or salvation. Key slave narratives like those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs can be analyzed using this structure. However, the document notes slave narratives may have inadvertently reinforced some racial stereotypes about the locations of slavery and the black family structure.