CH 4: CIVIL WAR LITERATURE

Question 1

American Slave Narrative

Answer 1

• a genre of literature written between the mid 1700s and the late 1800s by African slaves in America
• they were accounts of the horrors of capture, sale, and mistreatment as a slave
• some may have been exaggerated
• after slavery was abolished, more people were free to write their own stories

Question 2

Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 2

[1850] mandated that captured runaway slaves were to be returned to their masters