The life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs.

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs are two authors with very similar backgrounds. Both Douglass and Jacobs were slaves, and both wrote about the accounts they went through while enslaved. Jacobs views are expressed in "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," and Jacobs views in "Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl. Douglass's work is directed towards anyone willing to listen, and emphasized the fact that slavery was evil and dehumanized …

…in and allowing slavery. Douglass attempted to sway those of all race and gender with his recollection of the terrible events that he witnessed in slavery. Jacobs tried to sway those of the white female gender because she felt they would have sympathy for her. Through their Williams 3 attempts both Douglass and Jacobs swayed many in favor of slavery to hate slavery due to the inhumane events that they recollected in both of their works.