Slavery was a brutal and dehumanizing institution, set up to oppress and control a section of the population based on race in the United States for the betterment of another race. The experiences of slaves in the United States (and the colonies) had both similarities and differences across gender. Using Frederick Douglass’ autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as your sources of evidence, explore the role that gender played in the ways that slaves were oppressed as well as the ways that African American slaves exercised agency (power) within their lives in face of this oppression.