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"Sweat" is a short story by Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1926.

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Hurston was "a product of the Harlem Renaissance," an African-American political and artistic movement that took place in Harlem, New York in the 1920s, "as well as one of its most extraordinary writers" (Joyce 1019). She was born and raised in Eatonville, Florida, and that setting is recreated in "Sweat." Eatonville is notable for being "the first black township to be incorporated in the United States" (Joyce 1019).

She was in certain ways a mysterious figure, and a mischievous one too: for many years Hurston gave the impression to scholars that she had been born in 1901, when in fact she was born in 1891. Discussing the matter in her 1942 autobiography, she wrote: "This is all hearsay.

Maybe some of the details of my birth as told me might be a little inaccurate, but it is pretty well established that I really did get born" (Joyce