Summary: Fredrick Douglas And Harriet Jacobs

Slavery was a big issue during the mid 19th century, causing controversy between the North and South. There were many who tried to abolish slavery, and slaves that became free by escaping the south, really became involved and stated their views and personal experiences to end slavery. Two slaves out of many that really pushed to end slavery included Fredrick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. These two former slaves wrote narratives about their lives and what they experienced as a slave, with the hope that people would buy their narratives and push even harder to end slavery. Each narrator had a goal, but both of their goals had things in common, which was the main goal for everyone, ending slavery. Douglass and Jacobs approached their goals by writing about their personal experience as a slave in detail from childhood until they became free. …show more content…
As stated previously we the reader know that Jacobs life was different in the beginning compared to Douglass, Jacob was in a house with her parents while Douglass was already out away from his parents working. In Millers article we the readers find out that Douglass “concern was more of his own fate” (Miller 33). To a reader that shows that Douglass wanted to reach destiny in his life and find a purpose. One could say that he cared about him himself as a primary goal instead of everything around him. Jacobs on the other hand as Miller states “Jacobs primary concern was her family, her story contains faithfulness to those whom she loved the most” (Miller 33). Douglass and Jacobs had their common lifestyles but different in many ways, one being attached to family and one not knowing what family really meant. A life of a slave is hard to come by because one could not be in their shoes to understand what one went