Introduction: After Romanticism, came Realism which is a mirror or image to reality. In America, there was a difference between eastern part civilized and the western part which was still savage in an empty territory. It split into two movements:

1.      Eastern genteel such as Henry James “Daisy Miller” short story

2.      Western , savage, uncivilized

Local Colour Movement is typically American, slavery, minors and so on.

Mark Twain Buck about criticism of politics of slavery and injustice.

Black Negro American literature: first form of slave narrative 19th century contemporary writers, autobiography, their life, working conditions to obtain their freedom( theme).