Their_Experience_With_Slavery

Their Experience With Slavery Comparing And Contrasting Harriet Jacobs And Fredrick Douglass's Gender Roles In Their Experience With Slavery Jacobs and Douglass Harriet Jacobs and Fredrick Douglass are two powerful writers who each addressed their heartfelt story of enslavement. Jacobs was a young female who was born into slavery while Douglass was a male slave who was harshly treated. They each told their compelling narratives about their experience with being a slave. Jacob’s account deals with the personal abuses that she suffered as a woman. Specifically how she had to overcome the surrendering of her chastity to another. She had a desire for a home and family, but she was given no choice for these matters. This is why she remarked, “Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women” (1770). Douglass’ account addresses slavery as an unethical institution, as he tells his triumph over adversity by escaping. Douglass’ said, “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man”(2069). Both these narratives account for the contrasting gender differences of being a slave and show how they overcame this affliction. In douglass, slave, slavery, jacob’s, account, covey, terrible, master, jacobs, gender, enslavement, being, women, physical, mr, man, family, douglass’s, children, abuses, 1765, woman, while, said, overcame, over, narratives, narrative, made, encountered, each, differences, came, because, wanted