The Harlem Renaissance began around the 1920s and was the hub of African American artistic activity, with less discrimination, more freedom, and surprising advances in politics and economics, much different from how the slaves lived and hoped, but there were still similarities such as the will for a better life and the hope for the future that they both embraced even though they were in a terrible position. Of course there are also differences, in this case the writers and artists of Harlem were more educated and saw education as a ladder towards progress and equality, while the slave authors had no education and did not care about it, the Second difference is their purpose and audience which are both different in slave narratives and the Harlem Renaissance. Regardless of their differences in knowledge and power, both Harlem Renaissance writers and slave narratives showed a desire for a better life and hope for the future, which they hoped to improve. Writers like Langston Hughes who came from the Harlem Renaissance and were educated writers wrote poems like "I, Too" which talks about how one day the black man will sit at the table with the white people, even though they mistreated him. An example is: "Tomorrow I will be at the table when people come, no one will dare to tell me that I eat in the kitchen, then they will see how beautiful I am and they will be ashamed." Frederick Douglass gives us an example of the will for a better life and hope for the future in his story when he writes this, after his argument with Mr. Covey: “He rekindled the few embers of expiring freedom, and revived within me a sense of my manhood. It reminded me of my lost self-confidence and inspired me again with a certain... medium of paper... hestra." In these two sentences Hughes talks about the glory and wonder of the shows that took place in Harlem and the stars who acted, sang or attended the shows. Although the writings are different, they have a similar goal which is to prevent their people from suffering and create a better future, they also do not forget their culture, except that in the Harlem Renaissance African American culture modernized or you could say changed. The Harlem Renaissance played a very important role in African American literature, music, art, culture and political stance, but it shared the same goals as the Slave Narratives that wanted to change the way. in which black people were treated and liberated. Both brought about great change and both greatly influenced our world today, both through literature and culturally, they made change possible..