Assertion: literature | /r/MadeOf | memoir
Facets:
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
value: by people
type: OTHER
value: before the american civil war
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Before the American Civil War, the literature primarily consisted of memoirs by people who had escaped from slavery; the genre of slave narratives included accounts of life under slavery and the path of justice and redemption to freedom.