Answer to Question #220514 in History for A.may

Question

Slavery
specifically on the books Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Answer 1

Slavery can be defined as a condition in which one human being is owned by another. Slavery typically involves the enslaved person being made to perform some form of work while also having their location dictated by the slaver. There is a Comparison of Writings by Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass on the view of slavery. Both authors were born into slavery and they escaped to freedom and fought to bring an end to slavery, each in their own way.

The field attains its most powerful expression in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave and Harriet Jacobs’s 1861 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Like all slave narratives, Jacobs’s and Douglass’s works express the pressure between the conflicting motives that generated life story of slave.

Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass were both slaves who wrote about their fights and agony during their years of slavery. Their stories were the same but again had a great difference because Jacob’s wrote “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” and Frederick Douglass wrote, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”.

Jacob’s wrote his story in a woman point of view and gave us a look at how the women that were slaves experienced life; while Douglass on the other hand wrote as a male slave and the violence. “Incidents in the Life of a Slave” by Harriet Jacobs is a life story narrative because it gives us a look inside in how the lives of slave women were, the troubles they faced and how they met them, more so the sexual abuses they got from their masters.