Life Of A Slave Girl Analysis

Harriet Jacobs Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl and Phillis Wheatley On Being Brought From AFRICA To AMERICA, both seem to slap reality into their audience's faces. These two female authors set a pathway for so many other authors, who were also slaves, in order for their side of the story to be told. Their stories were so inspirational that they inspired so many generations to come. These two authors really push the idea of being equal and freedom throughout their text; however, Phillis Wheatley talks about how the white people saved her from her land while Harriet Jacobs does not at all.
Freedom, Religious & Being Equal Freedom is something that every human wants, but not everyone is and was born with it. Harriet Jacobs is someone
Phillis Wheatley’s poem might only be 8 lines long, but the audience can see how dedicated she is as a Christian women and even though Harriet questions her faith, she is too a Christian women. They both agree on that how can both races be mostly Christian, but one race gets treated so horrible and the whites are the ones who get treated like they rule the world. Phillis Wheatley straight up called out the white people and even talks mentions, “Remember Christians, Negros, black as Cain” (1773, Line 7). She calls out the other Christians and different colors people skins are and she basically means that the color of someone's skin does not determine who is more important and who is less important. Jacobs talks about in her narrative about how white people will go to church on Sunday, but then that same day and during the rest of the week think it is okay to abuse and treat another person basically like farm animals. However, Harriet goes more into detail with hers and Wheatley only describe wanting to be equal with the whites in only two lines. These two ladies did an amazing job describing things into such detail, and it would not have been without the use of so many different types of literary devices they used and did not
In Wheatley’s poem, she basically thanks people for taking her away from her land but she then goes on by almost yelling at the people who took her away for not treating her and (assuming) the other slaves as equal at them. But then with Harriet Jacobs, the only time she ever gives any other emotion, other than anger, to white people is when they actually treat her well and then they pass away. This happened plenty of times throughout her narrative but even when she is with those white people, she still feels threatened by then and she still cannot trust them. However, the audience does not have a lot of information on Phillis Wheatley’s part because she only spends eight lines going from praising and thanking the whites, but then she goes straight into talking about them being unfair. By only spending eight lines on these two topics, it leaves the audience wanting more so that they can understand what is going on through her mind when she was writing this poem. But with Harriet’s narrative, the audience gets so much detail on what was going on with