He tells stories of savage beatings, as well as the unnecessary and unreasonable strife that was inflicted upon Negroes. ... This is very true of Douglass. ... Douglass and Jacobs speak in a more secular tone and their story is less of a journey. ... Douglass and Jacobs are two biracial people experiencing how it is to be divided between two cultures. ... Where these two narratives differ is the fact that Jacobs is a woman and tells her experience from a woman's point of view. ...

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Often, Washington is angrily deferred to as an "Uncle Tom" where Dubois is championed as the true hero of African-American ideals. ... We must look for the source of the disagreement in what they tell us they see - what they base their most fundamental premises on. ... What one feels is that he is not the hero of his own story, that in fact the hero exists in the personified form of a principle - a principle called "Freedom", defined by Washington, temporarily exemplified by him throughout the course of the story. ... So, where Washington tells us a straightforward Horatio-Alger-like story, Du...

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