In this paper I will point out to the important facts about slave narrative and the essentials on why slave narrative is still very important to us today.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, slave narratives were an important means of opening a dialogue between blacks and whites about slavery and freedom. As historical sources, slave narratives document slave life primarily in the south from the invaluable perspective of first-person. Increasingly in the 1840s and 1850s they reveal the struggles of people of color in the North, as fugitives from the South recorded the inequalities between America's ideal of freedom and the reality of racism in the so-called "free states." After the Civil War, former slaves continued to record their experiences under slavery, partly to ensure that the people in the future did not forget what had threatened it’s existence, and what happen in the past to these formal slaves. Slave narratives and their fictional children have played a major role in national debates about slavery, freedom, and American identity that have challenged the conscience and the historical consciousness of the United States ever since its founding. Many slave

many ex-slaves took up professional abolitionism or the writing of a narrative simply because they had no other means of income. The tensions within slave narratives between the self and the past, between autobiography and testimony, were reflections of their authors' unsure freedom, expression of a great courage tempered by un daring realities. slave narrative today is considered an essential component of literary history and viewed as a soul American genre. Scholars labor to authenticate enslaved persons' stories in order to enter previously silenced voices into the record of what it means to be an American.

Through out the years slave narratives has open many doors for African Americans to have a chance to hear and reflect on the past trials that our ancestors have endured and paving a new and brighter way for our future. Ex slave narratives has witness some or was apart of some of the most gruesome an brutal attacks against blacks and have survived to tell their story. No matter how many years may pass, the disgrace of slavery will remain permanently imprinted on our country. It was an established fact long before our birth as a nation; it caused our greatest war; it has shadowed every struggle, defeat, and victory of our land. Whites still

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