Historians, when analyzing black history, often focus on the negative psychological effects of slavery and racism on black people. However, what did the narratives of both Jacobs and Douglass reveal about the negative psychological transformation of their white oppressors as slave owners, based on the author’s observations give analysis to this question?
Frederick Douglass notes his mental evolution of going from a boy to a slave and then from a slave to a man. Using examples from the writing give analysis to his process of becoming enslaved and then finding freedom, noting specifically when he became free?
What is Mrs. Jacobs referring to when she notes, “the sad epoch of her life” at the age of 15? Use the author’s emotional tone to analyze two factors contributing to this period of depression in her life?
Describe the difference gender made in the master-slave relationship Jacobs had with her masters and mistress as a female house slave, and that of Douglass as a male house slave?
When Jacobs hits puberty her grandmother stresses that she remains a virgin, is that pressure from her grandmother fair, why or why not?
