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Harriot Jacobs Versus Harriet Beecher Stowe

            Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a memoir similar to the other memoirs we have read. Memoirs such as this one, tell the lives of one person as they saw it as well as the lives of the people that are around them. Memoirs are more true or believable than fiction stories.
             I felt that Brent is offers the reader an accurate perception of what being a slave was really like compared to Stowe. Stowe did not go through slavery herself. She could not have possibly felt everything that went on even though she may have spoken to slaves and learned their stories. .
             Brent experienced slavery first hand and saw its effect on the African Americans. She knew what it was like to be sold to an evil master. She had her children ripped away from her. Stowe did not. .
             The purpose is very different between a memoir and a story to gain sympathy for slaves. Brent set out to tell her story and what happened to her. She gives the reader a great insight into human feelings and one slave's perspective. .
             Stowe's novel attempted to create sympathy for slaves and give fuel to the anti-slavery movement. I feel that Brent's memoir does a better job creating sympathy than Stowe's novel. Brent is a real person. Reading about how Brent grew up and faces her difficult life that does not seem to get better until the end, is real. Brent's life is full of ups and downs. .
             Brent gives the reader a true story without the staging affects that Stowe does. I felt the staging affects and "leaving one person to go to another" paragraph starters took away from the realness of the story. .
             Brent's language adds a lot to her memoir as well. She does not hide the horrible parts of her story. She may not come out and say she was raped, but she acknowledges that it happened more directly than Stowe. Stowe gives the reader that slavery was bad. Brent gives us the degree as to how bad slavery was. Only a slave can give us that perspective.


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1. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Coil's Harriet Beecher Stowe is a biography of one of the most influential women of the 1800s. ... Harriet Elizabeth Beecher was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, to Lyman and Roxanna Foote Beecher. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe is famous for her writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book which helped to make an entire nation aware of the horrors of slavery. ... Soon, Harriet Beecher Stowe was the wealthiest author in America. ... Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe died on July 1, 1896, at the age of eighty-five. ...

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2. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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4. Anti Slavery

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5. Douglass and Stowe

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6. Uncle Tom;s Cabin

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7. Uncle Tom's Cabin

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