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A 6 page research paper/essay that addresses this topic. African Americans have historically used a variety of narrative forms in order to offers opposition to the entrenched nature of social inequality in the United States. These forms include autobiographies, novels, and advocacy essays that collectively share the effect of causing mainstream white society to question its racist assumptions and, in so doing, the legitimacy of the legal statutes that served to oppress people of color. This examination of several examples of African American literature demonstrates that each narrative form served to advance the cause of equality and social justice for black Americans. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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These forms include autobiographies, novels, and advocacy essays that collectively share the effect of causing mainstream white society to question its racist assumptions and, in so doing, the legitimacy of
the legal statutes that served to oppress people of color. The following examination of several examples of African American literature demonstrates that each narrative form served to advance the cause
of equality and social justice for black Americans. American culture first became aware authentic African American experience with the slave narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass. Both of
these narratives served to support the abolitionist movement, as they portrayed the conditions of slavery in graphic terms. In each case, the writers narrative style makes that individual "real" to
the reader and forever dispels any possibility that a black person is anything less than an authentic human being with hopes, feelings and longings and not "property" as dictated by
Southern law. Jacobs sets the stage for the saga of her hardships by describing a happy childhood, in which her life was so close the American norm that she
did not realize she was a slave, as her father was allowed to ply a trade and keep his earnings after paying his owner $200 per year. Her fathers "fondest
wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership of a man whom she refers to as
"Dr. Flint." As Dr. Flint has intentions of making Harriet one of his many mistresses among his slaves, he does not allow her to marry a fellow slave whom she
loves and soon makes his intentions known. This was an age that valued feminine virtue highly and woman was not considered to be worthy of any modicum of respect if
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