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Slavery was perhaps one of the most awful tragedies in the history of the United States of America. Since there was no such thing as tape recorders, televisions, or radio stations, to tell the world of the terrible ills of slavery, slaves who knew how to read and write were able to tell their stories on paper and some even got them published so the world could now the ills of slavery despite what southern whites depicted it to be. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs were two slaves who experienced slavery differently yet had many things in common. Douglass and Jacobs have many similarities as well as differences. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and in the Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, both authors use physical spaces as a means of escaping slavery.
These two stories about slavery are both very remarkable and at the same time very different from each other. The stories are written by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs who both where once slaves who through a lot of struggle and hardship gained their freedom. One was written by a man who showed us the hardship that male slaves went through and the other by a woman who gave us the inside look at how slave women and girls experienced life sexually mentally and physically.
How did Douglass use physical space in his narrative? In the beginning of this story Douglass tells us of a count when he saw his aunt getting a whipping and he his in a closet until the bloody ordeal was done and over with. Like a child who is scared Douglass his in the closet to keep himself out of sight of his master because in the event he was seen who knew what would have been done to him. He was terrified; since that was the first time he had ever seen someone get whipped.