It was these collective utterances that made up what the Afro-American writer, Arma Bontemps, calls an ""American genre" of literary narrative, otherwise known as "Slave narrative" (See Ogude 30 -31). These publications exposed in details their complex ethnical and psychological orientation toward slavery, demanding in very strict terms, the abolition of the Southern tyranny. Precisely, between 18, there were a wide range of publications by Afro-Americans on America's peculiar institution. Generally speaking, an autobiography is a self portrait narrative construed and constructed by the subject himself. Although identifiable as a unique genre of its own, the typical slave narrative is essentially a form of autobiography. Between 1770 when Ukawsaw Gronniosaw's work announced the birth of the African-American literary tradition and 1860, the most dominant form of narrative focused on the experience of slavery as encountered by blacks in the United States.
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