... and influence her audience. Truth was successful in her endeavor because her speech was published in June 1851 in The Anti-Slavery Bugle, and was widely distributed among her fellow feminists and abolitionists. The account of Harriet Jacobs in Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, was different from Sojourner Truth's account because it was Jacobs' autobiography ... to be entirely unprotected by law or customentirely subject to the will of another." Jacobs' story conveyed pathos, or emotional appeal, as she spoke directly to her readers several times throughout the narra...

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... . I believe that from the readings we have examined so far, the quest for freedom was best exemplified by: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Declaration of Independence, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, written by Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth's piece, "And Ain't I a Woman?" All of these pieces have many similarities and differences at the same time. The first piece, which shows the quest for freedom, was The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Ben Franklin ... lived what many people today call the "American Dream"...

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