Questions:
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs
This question is regarding Frederick Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave" and "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Ann Jacobs (SECTIONS 1-3 and 5 only) (link to story can be found at:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11030).
1) Taking into account both Douglass' and Jacobs' stories, what are the implications of gender on the experience of slavery?
2) Is it plausible that reader reactions to the two stories are influenced by the author's gender? How?