Read the excerpts from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad He said that if she went North, she’d freeze to death. Besides, what happened to the ones who went there? None of them came back to tell what it was like. Why was that? Because they couldn’t. They died there. They must have. If they were still alive, they would have returned to show the way to some of the rest of the slaves. None returned. None sent back word. What would she have there that she didn’t have here? Her reply was always the same: "I’d be free.” Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Mr. Sands had agreed that Benny might go to the north whenever his uncle Phillip could go with him; and I was anxious to be there also, to watch over my children, and protect them so far as I was able. How are Petry’s and Jacobs’s purposes for writing these passages similar? Both support the idea that slavery is an immoral practice. Both explain a person’s reasons for escaping slavery. Both describe a person planning their escape from slavery. Both describe a person’s fears while thinking about escaping.