The connection of slavery and gender depicted by literary devices in Harriet A. Jacobs' "Incidents in the life of a slave girl". Comparison to Frederick Douglass's "Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass"

Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, language: English, abstract: The paper analyzes the connection of slavery and gender depicted by literary devices in Harriet A. Jacobs’ "Incidents in the life of a slave girl" compared to Frederick Douglass’s "Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass". Th...