AP African American Studies / Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
2.22 Gender and Resistance in Slave Narratives
Notes
Slave narratives exposed slavery's cruelty. Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) described sexual abuse and women's resistance; Douglass's Narrative (1845).
Practice
Harriet Jacobs's narrative focused on:
1861.
Slave narratives were used by abolitionists to:
Testimony.
Frederick Douglass's Narrative was published in:
Autobiography.
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