"As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, historians began to produce studies of slave life that were newly attentive to the culture and community and resistance of slaves, giving a portrait both closer to the experience of slaves that lent itself more to a rich fictional treatment" (Rushdy 90).
"Seeing that the relatively powerless people in these social movements could actually make history 'happen from the bottom up,' historians began to re-imagine the possibility of revising their vision of the past and write history 'from the bottom up'" (Rushdy 88).
the neo-slave narrative challenges the past because of the present.
the neo-slave narrative challenges the present by remembering the past.
the neo-slave narrative reconstructs history FROM THE BOTTOM UP.