When you are a child your experience of the world is limited, and you could not think of a world different than your own. Contrary to your finite worldview the world has changed and evolved dramatically. Even just from the creation of this country, people’s ideals morals, and information has changed. One such instance of this cultural evolution was, settlement era, antebellum America, the Civil War era, and beyond. The European Settlers of America thought that Africans and African Americans were intellectually inferior. However, this condition was grossly mistaken and to prove it many African Americans published works of literary art. Fredrick Douglass, a former slave, turned abolitionist wrote his great masterpiece, Narrative of the Life of
