What Is The Role Of Injustice In African American Society

American Literature has great authors and within the author's’ books the plot of society is used in a great way. But In American Literature, Society has always judged the characters based on their actions, physical appearances,their beliefs and their social status.

In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne are led out from the town prison with her daughter Pearl, in her arms and the letter “A” upon her breast. Hester was once married before she had pearl. So in having pearl, she was an adulteress and she had to be punished for it. So the letter “A” was casted onto her for her life long punishment. Hester and her husband, Roger Chillingworth were coming to Boston but he had never arrived. Hester never knew if her husband was lived or not so she went on with life. She was banished from the town and was sent to live outside of the town’s perimeter and forced to live and provide for herself and pearl. She had never
African Americans were degraded to animals. They were treated like animals and talked to animals. they had no rights, no citizenship, no feeling of belonging, being a person. They took away the ability to think for themselves, but the slaves realized that we do not deserve to be treated like this. Slavery began because European inhabitants saw a race that they thought would be easy to conquer and make them do what they wouldnt. The idea of slavery was to have power over one race, europeans being superior and Africans being inferior. Society saw Frederick Douglass as another African boy who will never accomplish anything in life. He learned to read and write from one of his masters. It expanded his mind and the ability to understand topics, ideas. Also the ability to write about his own life experiences. He also was an activist for African American rights, but also a firm believer in equality for females, black or white, native americans or recent