Jacobs’ narrative is based on her life. It is effective towards the reader because it allows the reader to put on Jacobs’ shoes and see what she has experienced first hand. However, many at the time believed her account to be that of fiction because people (especially from the north) could not believe that this is what was happening in the south. It was also hard to believe it was fact during the time because women were not usually the ones entitled to literature; let alone being a black women who is literate. Not only does Jacobs’ talk about her life but she does so in a way where she has conversations with the reader and tries to sway the reader to think a certain way. When comparing Jacobs’ narrative between the Seneca Falls Declaration and Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”, one can see differences even though they are of the same time.

Douglass’ speech gives the perspective of a black slave who can’t celebrate the Fourth of July. Although Jacobs’ and Douglass’ give their accounts to being a black slave, they differ in that Douglass’ clearly states that he is not free. He doesnt beat around the bush like Jacobs’ does. Douglass’ says he has no rights and that they cannot be shared with him. The Fourth of July to accourding to Douglass is a time of mourning. The white celebrate they day to rejoice the freedom they inherited but for a black slave it is a remembrance of pain and lashes to the back. On the other hand, the Seneca Falls Declaration states the inequality of men and women rather than that of blacks and whites. Jacobs’ does insist on women of not being powerless and standing up for whats right in her narrative but her account focuses more on the abolition of slavery. The Seneca Falls Declaration states that throughout history man has repeatedly proven tyranny of women. When in marraige the man inherits everything that the woman has as if she is an object to be traded. Woman, although not punished as the black slaves were, still were punished. Woman were not allowed the same rights as man and felt oppressed. The Seneca Falls Declaration gives voice to women using a narrative in which women are treated as an object. It also directly points to men as being at fault by constantly using “he”. This style is used in order to shame men and to point out the facts of inequality between men and women.