Frederick Douglass’ slave narrative is one of an uncountable number that played a major role in opening a dialogue between blacks and whites about slavery and the true meaning of freedom. Later, in the …show more content…
Not to be forgotten, artists like Hughes and Dunbar from the Harlem Renaissance continued to advocate for Douglass’ goal. Slave and ex-slave narratives are crucial to the complex study of American American history and literature. When reactionary white Southern writers of the 1880s and 1890s uncork the myths of slavery and the plantations to a nostalgic white Northern readership, slave narratives became one of the vital resources that readers in the late nineteenth century could study to get a reliable, first-hand experience of what slavery had actually been