Still today the vestiges of slavery can be felt.įrederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) are two autobiographies, written by two former slaves, who succeeded in escaping slavery and all its inexpressible cruelties. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.” (Malcolm X)īesides the virtual extermination of the native Indian population it is the brutal and dreadful treatment of Afro-American slaves in the 19th century which depicts some of the darkest and saddest chapters in the history of the United States.
We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. "We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind” (From the opening of the film Gone with the Wind, 1939) Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. “There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South.
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