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).

In both stories it is made very clear that the life of a slave was hard and that slaveholders most of the time were very cruel, not seeing their slaves as persons but as property. Another thing that can be found in both stories is the role Christianity plays, in the story by Jacobs the baptism of Linda's child was very important to her grandmother, a good Christian, who also could forgive Dr. Flint, this meaning that although being a slave you should keep your faith. Douglass had a different look on Christianity, he writes how hypocrite most of his religious masters were, praying all day and claiming to be a good Christian but on the other hand beating and abusing their slaves and trying to justify this by quoting the holy scripts.

courage of Linda for standing they abuse and the things she did to be independent (especially in choosing her own man and not having one forced upo

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