Harriet Jacobs

Instructions

• Read the following documents by David Walker http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931t.html and Frederick Douglass http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1121.htm

• Read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl .

Question1. Describe why David Walker feels African

Americans need to take emancipation into their own hand. Reference quotes to back up your answer.

2. To what extent does Douglass use compassion and reasoning to point out the hypocrisy of slavery? Reference quotes to back up your answer.

3. What makes Harriet Jacobs’ writing different than Walker’s and Douglass’? What does she reference that the others talk about but have no experience with? Reference quotes to back up your answer.