After reading the given post-Revolutionary-war readings, I came to understand that literature played an important role in the fight of African-American slaves. Literature encouraged people to be aware of the current issues and forced readers to have knowledge about them.Through literature, many writers tried to convey their hatred against the existing slavery. For example, In the reading "Race, Slavery, and the Inventions of the "South", Thomas Wentworth in his essay tells us that an African-American rebellionist, Turner despite his effort to free slaves, remains as a master's property. The word "property" in Wentworth's essay insinuates us that African-American people were treated as objects. Similarly, John Greenleaf Whittier's poems mobilized
