In “Incidents in the life of a Slave girl”  Harriet Jacobs describes her life experiences as a slave girl in first person form. She describes many of her traumatic experiences as  a child slave from being tortured to the deaths of her loved ones. in the beginning , Linda (Harriet) as a small girl was naive and thought she lived a simple and happy life but it wasn’t until she was six years old, she realized she had no real freedom and suffers through the pressures of  slave life. She states that slavery had a bad influence on their morals because parts of their behavior and  personalities are left undeveloped. The slaves were brought up with no strong ethical sense. While in contrast to  Frederick Douglas “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”, he  attacks the white man in a speech regarding the celebration of this holiday. Frederick describes the injustices and cruelty of the black man. The Black man shouldn’t be included in this anniversary because it is a deception and this a day for the black man to mourn. Frederick’s style of writing is very blunt and straight forward in this particular speech. The differences between the two narratives is the battle between the sexes. While Douglas Douglas focuses on the struggle  to achieve manhood, Harriet(Linda) focuses on the sexual exploitation of women. There is definitely a distinction between the value and focus between the two genders. Frederick Douglas describes the deception of the black man but seems to leave out the Black Woman.

In contrast Between “Incidents in the life of a slave girl “and “The Seneca Falls Declaration” discusses the injustices  of women in the North and in the United States. Although it addresses the issues of women , it doesn’t necessarily address the mistreatment of  the slave girl/ women and to people of  color overall. The criticism of this speech only fights in efforts to secure the education , social and civil conditions of White women. It’s obvious it doesn’t mention the treatment of slaves in general especially women slaves. White women didn’t understand the strugglesd and psychological effects of the black women. Assuming from a woman and a human perspective they would show some sympathy, not really. In “Incidents of a Slave Girl” page 19, “She Called me to her , and asked what I had about me that made such a horrid noise. I told her it was my new shoes. “Take them off”, she said; “and if you put them on again, I’ll throw  them into the fire.” After this incident , she ended up walking bare foot through the snow which is extremely cruel to do to someone. These acts of behavior just shows the way black people were treated and they were looked upon  as less of a human.

I think the advantage Harriet(Linda) had to make her unique arguments is her speaking from her own actual experience and giving evidence. The reader is able to visualize to try to put ourselves in her shoes to better understand.