DOUGLAS AND STOWE During the nineteenth century slavery was at the heart of a divided nation. ... Stowe's story, called "Uncle Tom's Cabin," is about life with slavery as she imagined it. ... Douglass" book, called "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," is an autobiography and gives an account of what it was like to live as an American slave. ... Douglass also shows the same opposition through the description of his direct encounters with the brutal life of slavery. ... Douglass on the other hand uses his life story to expose the brutal and merciless li...

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"The War on Slavery" Living across the Slaveholding State of Kentucky, the young Harriet Beecher Stowe met both abolitionists and fugitive slaves, both whom informed her of the cruelty of life in bondage. ... She stated, "I will write something .I will if I live" (Douglas 8). ... During this period American women were writing profitably (Douglas 12). ... It inspired other authors such as Frederick Douglas's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas and Harriet Ann Jacobs" Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to write about their experiences as slaves. ... Uncle Tom's Cabin ...

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• Grade Level: High School