Words Beneath Our Feet
When walking amongst an old abandoned building taken over by nature, on a land you are unfamiliar with, do you ever wonder what had happened there? If there were secrets held, deaths or tortured souls that once walked on the very ground you are standing on? This is how I feel about the lands of the South. I believe that trees hundreds of years old and the dirt beneath our feet hold the stories. They can hold the residual emotions that once swept the places at hand and always will. Back when the horrid acts of slavery were a reality, I cannot even bare to think of the horrible acts that took place to innocent people. People that were ripped apart from their families and homes to be thrown in a ship with unbearable …show more content…
Not only is it where it began, but out of the remainder of the “New World” the South was the cruelest. Frederick Douglass wrote the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) giving a detailed description of the institution of slavery and to let people know to not be mistaken or forget the immense cruelty that went on. He published this less than seven years after he escaped slavery with brutal details, details that seem almost too horrific to be a reality though many people quoted that nothing was exaggerated.This narrative gives anyone who wants to learn, a glimpse of what it was like to live as a slave. Frederick Douglass is one of the most celebrated writers in the African American literary tradition, and his first autobiography is the one of the most widely read North American slave …show more content…
A great example of this would be Alice Walker’s writings. Seeing the Pro’s rather than the Con’s, Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple. This novel focuses on the life of an African American woman in the South of the United States speaking of the hardships of African Americans people trying to live in American social culture. This novel was exceptional and recognized for its brilliance. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 as well as the National Book Award for Fiction. Later, it was in made into a musical and
When walking amongst an old abandoned building taken over by nature, on a land you are unfamiliar with, do you ever wonder what had happened there? If there were secrets held, deaths or tortured souls that once walked on the very ground you are standing on? This is how I feel about the lands of the South. I believe that trees hundreds of years old and the dirt beneath our feet hold the stories. They can hold the residual emotions that once swept the places at hand and always will. Back when the horrid acts of slavery were a reality, I cannot even bare to think of the horrible acts that took place to innocent people. People that were ripped apart from their families and homes to be thrown in a ship with unbearable …show more content…
Not only is it where it began, but out of the remainder of the “New World” the South was the cruelest. Frederick Douglass wrote the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) giving a detailed description of the institution of slavery and to let people know to not be mistaken or forget the immense cruelty that went on. He published this less than seven years after he escaped slavery with brutal details, details that seem almost too horrific to be a reality though many people quoted that nothing was exaggerated.This narrative gives anyone who wants to learn, a glimpse of what it was like to live as a slave. Frederick Douglass is one of the most celebrated writers in the African American literary tradition, and his first autobiography is the one of the most widely read North American slave …show more content…
A great example of this would be Alice Walker’s writings. Seeing the Pro’s rather than the Con’s, Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple. This novel focuses on the life of an African American woman in the South of the United States speaking of the hardships of African Americans people trying to live in American social culture. This novel was exceptional and recognized for its brilliance. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 as well as the National Book Award for Fiction. Later, it was in made into a musical and