With cleverness being used as the main tool African Americans escaped their oppression using their cleverness. “Another aspect of the mask is the practice of storytelling. A white man himself, Harris knew what the white reader expected of black characters. Which was old slaves telling stories to his master’s children. But the Brer-Rabbit tales were really for slave children warning them of the dangers of Brer–fox (white man).” (The power of the wit and the mask Annie
With cleverness being used as the main tool African Americans escaped their oppression using their cleverness. “Another aspect of the mask is the practice of storytelling. A white man himself, Harris knew what the white reader expected of black characters. Which was old slaves telling stories to his master’s children. But the Brer-Rabbit tales were really for slave children warning them of the dangers of Brer–fox (white man).” (The power of the wit and the mask Annie