Appealing to the White Audience
In both Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Up from Slavery , the most compelling shared element is the use of literacy as a tool to appealing to the white audience, though they do it in very different ways. For Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington, learning to read and write was a way to speak against a system designed to keep them oppressed. By writing their autobiographies, both were essentially proving their worth to a white audience who would typically look down on them. However, the way they used their voices differs vastly based on their personal views and agendas. https://thewritingbarn.com/book-review-incidents-in-the-life-of-a-slave-girl/ https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/up-from-slavery-an-autobiography-1?srsltid=AfmBOooe_BouaZv0cw5oUBtLOzeFtVBQBHqd1pU5JmZbI6w8kCJgc_4r Both Jacobs and Washington were writing for a white audience, but they used vastly different strategies to appeal to them. Jacobs, writing for Northern white women during the abolitionist movement...