There are many instances in American history where there are examples of African Americans being attacked or forced unwillingly and unethically. African Americans were called upon to take actions given to them by white people telling them they had to do something. Many different sources show this, some of them exist, including Octavia Butler’s “Kindred”, Mark Twain’s “The Lowest Animal,” and many more. Authors like Frederick Douglass and poets like Countee Cullen and Jean Toomer. These people expressed their feelings about slavery in the few ways they could, saying it without truly saying it. Man has expressed defective measures in their actions and how they used to treat African Americans like they had no value. If historical figures who owned…show more content… In Jean Toomer's “Song of the Son” he uses a song-like rhythm which represents how they communicated back then. One of the only ways black people could express themselves was through a song due to whites refusing to listen to them. The lines “An everlasting song, a singing tree, Caroling softly souls of slavery, What they were, and what they are to me, Caroling softly souls of slavery,” are used to show their relationship with music. This displays one of the few ways that African Americans were allowed to speak about how they felt. I hope to act like former slave owners were able to read my essay and rethink the choices they made hundreds of years ago. Their decisions and choices many years ago would not be accepted in today’s society. I want to acknowledge that if they were still alive, they would not be accepted into today’s society because of the wrongful moral decisions they made. The main idea is to control past historical figures' decisions about owning slaves and why the decisions they made still have an effect today. In Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” he summarizes slavery in the form that they make it worse than white
