AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• Social reformer;statesman;orator;writer; abolitionist
• Famed 19th century author and orator Fred D. was an eminent human rights leader in the anti-slavery movement and the first African American citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• Law that allowed Southern slave owners whose "property" had run away to go north and reclaim their slaves with the help of local authorities

CIVIL WAR CONNECTION

• Frederick Douglass believed that the free black men from the north should be able to fight for the union
• He convinced Abraham Lincoln to make abolition of slavery a goal of the civil war

ABOLISHNIST LITERATURE

• During the abolishment movement slavery was a big deal. Escaped and free slaves were trying to discredit the idea of slavery in the south.
• Works of literature like Uncle Tom'sCabin and The Liborator showed the world how tough plantations and slave owners were too them.

SLAVE NARRATIVE

• A slave narrative is a type of literary work that is made up of the documented lives of the enslaved African American men and women in Great shape Britain and its colonies including The United States, Canada and the Caribbean Nations. Ex:"Grandpa took giant steps forward in time. As a boy not quite old enough to be much help in the fields, his job was looking out for Charlie Rackett, his ancient, crippled grandfather, an African, a former slave. Grandpa listened to Charlie Rackett's African stories and African words, then lived to see white men on the moon."

THE END