1. According to Henry Louis Gates, almost 50% of the Afro-American literary tradition was created when "it's authors and their black readers were either slaves or former slaves". 2. Slave narratives were produced for many reasons. One was to inform others of the hardships that slaves...

President Abraham Lincoln said in 1858, "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races." President Lincoln is widely believed to be the fabled liberator of the slaves. However, Lincoln showed time a...