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#BlackHistory337 6 : Fictional Slave Narratives

Name: #BlackHistory337 6 : Fictional Slave Narratives
Start: 2027-08-01
Location: African American Literature Book Club

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01 August 2027

This event began 08/01/2026 and repeats every year forever

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https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337-6-Fictional-Slave-Narratives-1348180919

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#BlackHistory337 is about the time outside the 28 days designated as Black History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of the Black community during the other 337 days of the year. Let's continue learning all year long, because history doesn't stop when February ends.

For this edition of #Black337 the focus is Fictional Slave Narratives. In modernity most know of biographical slave narratives like Frederick Douglass's autobiography or Solomon Northrup's Odyssey , more commonly known as "Twelve Years A Slave". But circa 1865, the year the Union defeated the Confederacy in the War Between the States in the United States of America, the most popular fiction from Black or non Black writers were Fictional Slave Narratives. The fictional slave narrative most mentioned in modernity is Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". But, Black people did create fictional slave narratives , as well; they were heavily published or financially successful in there original publishing time. [ I list a set of fictional slave narratives written by Black people , free to read, below. ] To be blunt, the fictional slave narratives written by Black people had two forces against the continuity of their financial or media popularity when first published in the U.S.A. . First, Black peoples finances went through an obliteration from outside the Black populace. Second, Black people became resentful of the tone of slave narratives, biographical or fictional; it isn't a dislike of the truth but from 1865 to modernity , Black people have become frustrated or bitter about the ever presence of embattled black characters in the media of the U.S.A. So,

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The following are all fictional enslaved fantasies from Richard Murray @HDdeviant

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