1. According to Henry Louis Gates, almost 50% of the Afro-American literary tradition was created when "it's authors and their black readers were either slaves or former slaves". 2. Slave narratives were produced for many reasons. One was to inform others of the hardships that slaves...

In his short story "salvation", Langston Hughes describes an event that happens in his life. Langston has hatred toward whites and this hatred is expressed in this story. He thinks white people think of their own selves as superiors over everybody. That whites are "saints" and th...

early in this elaquent novel.. a sheriff is summoned to a sugarcane plantation where he finds one young white woman, about eighteen old black men, and one dead Cajun farmer. The sheriff is sure he knows who killed the cajun although each of the men is toting a shotgun, only one of them could hit a c...