... , with the 13th Amendment. However, upon closer examination, slavery, or something similar and descended from it, has continued to exist in American society long after 1865. In his fictional novel Native Son, Richard Wright shows that while Black Americans have been free in the eyes of the law since 1865, in the eyes of society, that of whites and their own, American Black's have ... continued to suffer the evils of slavery and a racism through the 1930's and beyond. Native Son tells the compelling human drama of a young man enslaved by the lack of positive exposure that his life affords...

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