![]() ![]() Jacob’s finished her manuscript about 4 years later but it took another 4 years before it was published. She began working privately on her narrative not long after Cornelia Grinnell Willis purchased her freedom and gave her secure employment as a domestic servant in New York City. Harriet Jacobs began her narrative around 1853, after she had lived as a fugitive slave in the North for ten years. His narrative was the result of his speech making career showing his preaching style along with the rhythms from biblical texts that were familiar to his audiences. Douglass’s narrative was the story of he he transformed from a slave to a free American citizen. Both Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs were authors of a Slave Narrative a book about their lives as slaves and their struggles for freedom. ![]()
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