Clarifications of the brutal treatment of slaves, both physically and mentally, are also evident in the works of Stowe and Jacobs. Stowe, in Uncle Tom's Cabin, uses the stories of Eliza, Harry, Uncle Tom, and Cassy to show how slavery, with both cruel and kind masters, affects different members of the slave community. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs focuses her work on how the institution is “terrible for men; but it is much more terrible for women” (B:933), adding sexual abuse to the atrocities of slavery. Douglass' Madison offers the reader a male perspective on the