Compare And Contrast Any Two Passages About Slavery

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Do you about slavery? If you don't then it's about a certain time period in the south that rich white people force workers,which were mainly african americans work for no pay. The passages that i”m going to be comparing are about slavery and there heroic things.One of these passages are about this one slave begging his master to buy his lover. The other one is about this about this slave that tries to get his freedom. These two passages have differences and similarities. `The similarities about these two passages are that they both are about slavery. Another similarity is that they are both trying to reach a goal. The goal that one of the passages are talking about is that he tries to persuade his master to let buy his lover so that

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