Slave on the Block | Critical Overview
Hughes was surprised when his story ‘‘Slave on the Block’’ was accepted for publication in the distinguished and well-established magazine Scribner's. Other mainstream magazines hesitated to publish the stories he wrote in this period, particularly those referring to interracial sexual relationships. In 1934 Hughes collected the stories and published them a volume called The Ways of White Folks, his first book of short fiction. Its title is a reference to W. E. B. DuBois's influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk, famous for its claim that"the problem of...
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