... Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and the list goes on to include newer African American authors and scholars such as Cornell West, Toni Morrison and Nikki Giovanni. All of these novelists, playwrights and poets have created a historical journey in their literature with all the trials, tribulations, discriminations, murders, accomplishments and pride of African ... discusses slavery in the South. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, most of Chesnutt's writings include the struggles of African American's and also touched on the topic of be...

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