The Art of the Harlem Renaissance
Jada Ferguson African American Literature 12/3/25 The Art of the Harlem Renaissance In the days of slavery, the negro and the white man knew who the negro was; after slavery neither knew. The situation regarding negro’s had been desperate, degraded and sub-human where both races knew the negro was the white man's slave, on how both knew how the negro was expected to behave, and both knew the possibility of his life situation. Because of this, a brief political struggle followed legal freedom. In some 20 years, the Jim crows legislation clinched this outcome on where the southern negro learned about the negro’s “new” status; even when it wasn't new. Legal boundaries compelled negroes to live and to act like slaves in the south but many didn't stay which led to thousands to go up north where they didn't know how to behave. The Harlem Literary renaissance of the 1920’s was a quest for an image. During the riots in 1919 and stock market crashes in 1929, Negro w...