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Initial Comparison/Contrast of mark Twain, frederick douglass, and langston hughes

Twain, Douglass, and Hughes sympathized with the hardships and discriminations that African Americans suffered.

They all seemed to understand what it felt like to be an black man in America.

Twain is the only white writer in this group.

Twain was not afraid to write the truth, but he using satire.

Douglass directly experienced the horrors and atrocities of slavery until his escape.

Hughes focused his writings on the black culture from the 1920s-1960s.