Comparing Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slav

Comparing Narrative of the deportment of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and Incidents in the carriage of a Slave misfireWhat provokes a person to write about his or her life? What motivates us to read it? Moreover, do men and women tell their life story in the same way? The answers may vary depending on the person who answers the questions. However, i may suggest a reader elects to read an autobiography because in that respect is an interest. This interest allows the reader to draw from the narrators experience and to gain understanding from the experience. When the reader involves him/herself in the experience, the reader encounters what is known and felt by the narrator. The encounter may provide the reader an opportunity to explore a time and key long past.Reading the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, one identifies a period when the break ones backs voice begins to appear. Douglass and Jacobs emerge during the American Renaissance perio d. During this period, decree struggles with the abolishment of slavery and womens rights. Douglass and Jacobs narratives awaken society to the atrocities of slavery confirmed by their personal experiences. The American Renaissance, distinguished as an intellectual and artistic period, now includes, among others, Douglass and Jacobs brutal historical accounts. Douglass and Jacobs narrative social movement represents the voice slaves who desire freedom from bondage.In Trudy Mercers Representative char Harriet Jacobs and the Incidents in the aliveness of a Slave Girl, she suggests both narratives work as propagandaThe slave narratives of pre-Civil War America may exemplify the earliest and most melodramatic uses of the personal as political, and the sharing of experiences ... ... the Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. Melus. 22.4 (Winter 1997) 91-108. 16 April 2002 http//relayweb.hwwilsonweb.com/cgi-bin/webclient.pl?sp.usernumber.p=513630&url=yes&sp .nextform=show.Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Laughter. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. 1871-1880.Jacobs, Harriet Ann. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. 1962-1985.McFreely, William S. Frederick Douglass. novel York W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.Mercer, Trudy. Harriet Ann Jacobs Author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Representative Woman Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. 16 April 2002.