readings for the essay
Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Jacobs’s- Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl
Frederick Douglas- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
While Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a work of fiction and both Douglass’s Narrative and Jacobs’s Incidents are memoirs, all three discuss slavery and the question of slavery. Compare and contrast Stowe’s novel to either Douglass or Jacobs work (choose one). As you do so, pay particular attention to the rhetorical choices they make to persuade their audience of the evils of slavery.