"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass is one of the book I can talk about for this critical lens because in this book Frederick planned an escape in the night time it means the dark. He wanted to escape at night time because there was no way to escape from his master (the person who owed him, that had him as a slave). Frederick and a couple of other slaves made a song, and sang it during the day when they were working on the plantations, it was a plan made to sneak out to the north. The white people from the South thought that the black slaves were too stupid to plan any escape from them. The name of the song was "Follow the drinking gourd." They invented the drinking gourd because at night the stars made a constellation in shape of drinking gourd and it will always point to the North. Only a few slaves escaped from the evil hands of the South people.
The second book that touches the critical lens is "War comes to Willy Freeman" by the Collier brothers. Willy was a girl that just had lost her father at the battlefield and just had her mother taken away from her by the British. She was a black free girl, she wanted to find her mother in New York City because she had heard rumors that a bunch of black women were taken to NY. To go to New York she was forced to make moves at night because she was a girl and she were young. So she dressed like a boy so no one could suspect nothing and made her moves as soon as the sun dropped, to look for her mother.
The second book that touches the critical lens is "War comes to Willy Freeman" by the Collier brothers. Willy was a girl that just had lost her father at the battlefield and just had her mother taken away from her by the British. She was a black free girl, she wanted to find her mother in New York City because she had heard rumors that a bunch of black women were taken to NY. To go to New York she was forced to make moves at night because she was a girl and she were young. So she dressed like a boy so no one could suspect nothing and made her moves as soon as the sun dropped, to look for her mother.