39.3k views
4 votes
What lessons about slavery, racism, and freedom does the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs offer?

User Skrause
by
5.5k points

1 Answer

2 votes

Answer:

Slave narratives served an ideological purpose, namely to elicit the sympathy of northern readers to the plight of southern slaves as well as to publicize the abolitionist movement

Step-by-step explanation:

User Tanaque
by
5.3k points