During the last three decades of legal slavery in America, from the early 1830s to the end of the Civil War in 1865, African American writers perfected one of the nation’s first truly indigenous genres of written literature: the North American slave narrative. The genre achieves its most eloquent expression in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave<span> and Harriet Jacobs’s 1861 </span>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl<span>. Like all slave narratives, Jacobs’s and Douglass’s works embody the tension between the conflicting motives that generated autobiographies of slave life. An ironic factor in the production of these accounts can be noted in the generic title “Fugitive Slave Narrative” often given to such works</span>
Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass both managed to escape slavery. Jacobs was hesitant to write or publish her account, however Douglass was not and published several versions of her story.
This quote illustrates the role of a Commander-in-chief. When the country is invaded or attacked, the president has powers to take <em>critical decisions</em> to deal with the imminent conflict. In the case of any crisis, the president is requesting the congress for <em>similar executive powers</em> in order to wage a war agaisnt the emergency, as if it were a real war.
