The slave narratives by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs show how the institution of slavery dehumanizes an individual both physically and emotionally. Slavery is never a better/worse thing to go through between women and men. In opinion, enslavement of one gender/person is equivalent to the enslavement of the other gender/person. In the case of the women, it is agreeable that yes it was cruel, and very dehumanizing for them to go through the circumstances they did. Harriet Jacobs gives a very vivid image of some of the lustful sayings the master had with them by stating in her writing " I now entered on my fifteenth year--- a sad time in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was,
