I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

programmable machines. This mentality allowed for the destruction of religion, social hierarchy and love in a slave 's mind. In Willie Lynch 's letter: The Making of a Slave, Lynch created a document that was given to plantation owners in order for them to know how to break a slave…

The ingenuity of the individuals involved in the Harlem Renaissance continues to have an effect on modern culture. The Harlem Renaissance was a celebration of African American culture. Slavery and the Jim Crow Laws had oppressed Africans Americans for hundreds of years. The idea of white supremacy was popular quickly becoming popular in the South. Unfortunately, most African Americans lived in the South and were treated horribly. In 1890, the Great Migration began, in which many African…