African American Folktales
African American folktales were ways of experiencing ideas, emotions and stories. It was illegal for slaves to talk to each other so they used metaphorical characters to relate to themselves. The most common character was the rabbit that was thought to always be able to trick anyone bigger and stronger than its opponent. By writing these stories, formal slaves were able to give us a great amount of their history.
African American folktales were considered as a wonderful work of art. This is because even though there is no evidence that slaves actually created these stories, it really seems like they did because of the unique dialect. Anyways, as I said before, they had the courage to kind of forget their problems and know there is a life they need to fulfill ahead of them. This really shows that creativity can overcome the oppression given by the slave master.
The folktales were acted out just to be more entertaining to the audience. A folklorist......
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