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African History

             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 their experiences. It was believed that "in literacy came true freedom for the black slave". This is another reason that so many narratives were written. The only way that slaves could truly be free was to 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 their stories were passed along through generations by word of mouth. .
             4. We teach slave narrative along with American and African-American autobiography because the first narratives laid the groundwork for autobiographies in the future. They set a pattern for first person narratives to come. Also, it gives two different view points for different situations that took place at the same time. It gives us a look at how differently Americans and slaves both reacted to slavery.
            


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