... so develops a moral code that addresses the specific social and historic position of captive, black women. Yet, Jacobs's work goes far beyond this: her ingenuity, strength of will and powers of speech were standards of womanly behavior being newly developed by the emerging feminist movement. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass displays the psychological properties involved in the state of double-consciousness. His life was marked with the struggle of trying to embrace his multicultural heritage without ... compromising one over the other. Due to slavery and othe...

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... 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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