How do the style and presentation of the works respond to the unusual rhetorical situation of an ex-slave writing for a white American (Northern) audience?

What are the unique experiences which provoke and allow these particular writers to assert and express themselves?

What do these works show about the effects of slavery on the slave owners? on the slaves themselves?

What do both writers reveal about the role of sex and family in slavery? of education? of violence? How do their different genders affect their perspective, their experiences, and their responses?