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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines both most significant Africanamerican slave narratives into one volume.Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is definitely an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is definitely an account of the dehumanizing ramifications of slavery and Douglass's own overcome it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was created into captivity, and in 1861 she posted Incidents in the Life Span of a Slave Girl, today thought to be the absolute most extensive antebellum slave narrative compiled by a lady. Jacobs's consideration shattered the silence about the exploitation of Africanamerican female slaves, and it remains essential reading.