The quest for true freedom : psychological emancipation through the human connection in Wright’s native son and Morrison’s beloved

• Main Author: Sutherson, Sunil Ebenezer
• Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::American
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48711
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The institution of slavery was abolished in 1865, long before America entered the Twentieth Century, yet its manifold effects carried on long into the Twentieth Century. W.E.B. Du Bois, in his work The Souls of Black Folk, which he wrote on the onset of the century, put it succinctly when he stated...