Jacobs and Douglas: a comparison

Two stories about slavery, both very impressive but at the same time very different from each other. The stories are written by authors who both where once slaves themselves, but finally gained freedom One was written by a woman and thus giving us a look at how slave women experienced this life, the other written by a man.

The first story, Incidents in the life of a slave girl. by Harriet Jacobs, seems to be an autobiographical one, although some critics claim it is fiction. Whether true or not the story had a great impact on me . It gave a good inside look in how the life of a slave woman was, the problems she met, especially the sexual abuse by the master. It astonished me that a master impregnate a slave and that this child followed the condition of the mother, and was thus born a slave (this I did not know before).

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