Comparrison of Harriet Jacobs & Frederick Douglass #5 revised for the last time!!!!

Both Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass were slaves that wanted their freedom. Both of them were taught by their mistresses how to read and write which was forbidden at the time. Learning how to read made both of them at times feel cursed because they got a view of how bad slavery was without a resolution. They also recognized why the white man did not want them to be educated.
The thing that stood out to me was how they were both mixed children ( Mulatto) who constantly compared their slave life to the life of other slaves. On many occasions both of them state that they did not suffer as much as other slaves. For example, Jacobs states" He had never punished me himself, and he would not allow anybody else to punish me." Douglass states " For while at Baltimore I got few whippings, and few slaves could boast of a kinder master and mistress than myself...."
Both Frederick and Jacobs had a lot in common being born and raised in slavery. one thing that they both were able to achieve was learning how to read and write which was a great achievement for a slave at that point in time.