Fuller and Jacobs/Douglass

To a certain degree, I agree with Fuller’s statement. Women were definitely not high up on the totem pole in society, but the slaves were still a good ways under them. Women didn’t have as many rights or freedoms as men do, but they had a lot more privileges than slaves. If you look at Jacobs’s narrative, all she wanted was to be with her kids but she was denied even that simple thing. Women are able to be with their kids and have a roof over their heads, for the most part. Jacobs had to spend quite a few years in extremely terrible living conditions. She had to crawl around for exercise, there was no sunlight, and there were bugs that ate her up. At least most women had better living conditions than that. Women were able to live in a certain peace of mind, they at least didn’t live in constant fear for their life like Douglass did. Douglass watched as his own brother was murdered. There wasn’t a second thought about it. His brother didn’t have the justice he deserved. At least women were considered human beings. Slaves were not. Women didn’t have as much freedom, but they definitely had more than slaves.