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National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs: American Slave Narrators

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Lucinda MacKethan, English professor at North Carolina State University, offers a comparison of two classic slave narratives: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave and Harriet Jacobs's 1861 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

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slave narratives, slavery, african american history, frederick douglass
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harriet jacobs, nhc: frederick douglass and harriet jacobs: american slave narrators
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