Also, Ella Forbes, critic in Trotman's collection titled Langston Hughes; The Man, His Art, and Contemporary Reviews, reminds us that this part of Robert's character was both the death and freedom of him. ... These faults are ones that most would think an author of such standings as Hughes, would have corrected. ... According to Turner's view, he believes that "except for allusions to contemporary personalities and inventions, one might assume that the story was set in the antebellum South." ...

• Word Count: 1462
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

As a result of these Publications, Chesnutt recognized in American literary history as the first African American author to receive high critical acclaim. ... As a contemporary of Douglass, Chesnutt presents the reader with a portrait of the abolitionist based mainly on Douglass" three autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892) and other available materials of his day. ...

• Word Count: 913
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. This taboo of a topic found itself well-versed throughout the country in many publications. Its authorship included Frederick Douglass...

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After brief service in the Civil War he started writing as a journalist and later as an author. ... Sundquist says: " More specifically, it corresponds to an array of dualisms compromising the contemporary American racial trauma: theories of miscegenation and "blood- contamination that polarized the races and divided the mulatto identity,"- (50) Sundquist hints at a problem that is inhabited by Americans, and especially by white Americans living in the South. ...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Prince and her female contemporaries - many of whom also wrote slave narratives - used their voices to promote change and question the tenet England's civilized. ... Rauwerda insists they rob Prince of her authorial agency ("Naming- 398). ...

• Word Count: 3051
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One such example is Mark Krug, author of The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. His primary arguments were "based on Lincoln's expression of hatred for slavery and on the judgment of contemporaries that moral conviction sustained the emancipation edict." ...

• Word Count: 5422
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography