Examine the Use of Religion in Black Literature

The things to examine are how they use religion in their literature and how they talked about it, viewed it, and how they dealt with it. In our readings most of the African American literaturary writers are northern blacks. In the North, educated blacks often assimilated very successfully into white culture; indeed, that was precisely the goal for many. Exemplified by the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, for example. Each author had been very careful to …

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