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Douglass And Jacobs As Heroic Slaves Douglass and Jacobs as Heroic Slaves The autobiographical stories of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs tell the stories of two strong willed characters who fight for their God-given right for freedom. “The man who would one day be known to the world as Frederick Douglass transcended the oppression of his childhood to become one of the most forward-thinking social reforms of his age. An intellectual and political leader, Douglass harnessed an ever-increasing public profile to promote and defend the causes of full civil rights for all men and women, be they black or white” (Kester-Shelton). In Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Douglass’ The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave, they fight through the sexual, physical and mental harassment brought forth by slavery to dehumanize them and make them think and feel they were not equals to the white race. These heroic and courageous characters show that even when confronted with great adversity the human spirit can overcome. Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass took many risks in writing their stories with the hope that it would help other slaves in similar situations. The horrid things that the douglass, slave, jacobs, life, frederick, narrative, slaves, master, made, incidents, freedom, american, white, slavery, read, one, man, literature, harriet, critic, stories, help, great, even, characters, women, wanted, time, sexual, press, now, nigger, much, love, known