Frederick Douglass The work of Douglass was one of the first African-American literary works, an important autobiography representing the black culture. Autobiographies were extremely popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, because people were looking for models. Benjamin Franklin can be consider...

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This new genre of sound was not only a new type of entertainment, but also a genuine American lifestyle. ... (Wintz, Page 64) It was very hard at this time to get their writing out since whites ran all the publishing places. ... "(Locke, Page 95) The outpouring of African American literature of the 1980s and 1990s by such writers as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison also had its roots in the writing of the Harlem Renaissance. ...

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