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 endured. Slaves wanted people to hear their stories, and learn from ... express themselves in their writing. 3. Slave narratives were produced in two ways. One was through the printing press, in which they wrote their stories, and they were put into books or articles. Another was through oral traditions, where t...

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... . It was prohibited to step a foot on the white man's land at any time. The African Americans had to deal with such problems as buying a house, going to the park, or even going to church. The public places did not want to be shared with the black people. Discrimination caused a lot of frustration and unhappiness to those people. Leading successful lives ... , and hatred were introduced to our world because of the feeling of superiority. Experiencing this state of favorable position over other people results into segregation and discrimination. A person's skin color or race does not define...

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