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25 Cards in this Set
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on being brought from africa to america
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Phillis wheatley
-glad to have been brought to america, saved by christianity |
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A ante-bellum sermon
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paul laurenc dumbar
-moses and pharoah, likening modern day slaver to the bible |
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Harlem Shadows
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Mckay
-about prostitutes |
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smpathy
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paul lawrance dumbar
-the caged bird trying to escape |
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if we must die
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Mckay
-race riots, fighting back against other people but maybe possibly die |
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dinak kneading dough
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paul lawrance dumbar
-love peom about dinah |
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tired
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F. Johnson
-no hope, rather be dead that be black |
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we wear the mask
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paul lawrance dumbar
-hiding true emotions behind masks of fake happiness |
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Reaper
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Jean Toomer
-cutting in a field, cuts rat but doesnt notice and keeps going |
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A litany of atlanta
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W.E.D. Du Bois
-challenging god, upset that the whites get away with sin when th eblacks are always punished |
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Ode to Ethiopia
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Paul Lawrence Dumbar
-talks about his race, tells them to be forgiving of men |
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Karintha
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Jean Toomer
-women who is beautiful but grows old too fast, kills baby, men adore her |
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to his excellency general washington
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phillis wheatley
-praise of george washington, war and soldiers, american gaining freedom |
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songs of whirlwind
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F. Johnson
-about biter life but still loves god, difficult relationship with god, working in heaven |
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i sit and sew
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Dunbar Nelson
-forced to do domestic tasks and wishes to be out fighting for her country |
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enslaved
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McKay
-gaining freedom |
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the colored soldiers
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paul lawrence Dumbar
-the colored soldiers who were eventually allowed to fight in the war. |
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America
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McKay
-about america |
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The White House
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McKay
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Yet do i marvel
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Countee Cullen
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my god heaven said to me
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F. Johnson
-going to heave freedeom, god works as slave, |
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scarlet woman
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F. Johnson
-girl who turns from virtuous but has to sell herself to make a living. drowns her sorrows wiht gin |
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the haunted oak
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paul lawrence dumbar
-oaks point of view of someone bing lynched |
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to the white friends
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Mckay
-fighting back against whites, showign he is too civilized to act like them |
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on the death of the rev. mr. george whitefield
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phillis wheatley
-the death of the reverand, heaven and jesus impartial accepts blacks and whites |
