Ellen Watkins Harper - Poem

In this poem telling of someone that experienced

From my

Hunter, F. (n.d.). Aunt Chloe

both slavery and segregation a new type of event

past

Poem. Retrieved October 21,

was revealed to me. Before segregation newly

sources

2015.

freed people, one the author names David Rand,

the idea of

would vote for these segregation laws for pay

segregatio

outs. For wheat and sugar is the words used here

n more

but I am sure other incentives were used. The

likely

poem goes on to condemn this fact as David was

came from

lied to and outside of some sugar it was mostly

a culture

sand. Harper then points out many more

of middle

examples of similar attempted pay outs. The

class and

masters ruled again after words through books

upper

she says. So this is a limit of funding to

class white

education for the freed population. Essentially

supremacy

the whites lied and bribed their way into a new

. Not in

system of superiority. She writes that when

particular

teachers from the north came they did some

one

good but socially caused anger in the south.

person.
However
to achieve
this
system
many lies

and bribes
where
given to
the freed
men to
achieve
such a
Harris, Trudier. African

Propaganda was of course used to portray the

system.
This

American Protest Poetry.

newly freed African Americans in a negative

backlash

Freedoms Story,

light. However the south went into great detail

of counter

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even regarding the word Nigger and its

revolution

Humanities Center. 10/20/15

definitions. Take the term Nigger stick, it was

went so

<http://nationalhumanitiescenter the term the south used for a police baton. For an far as to
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object of violence to be used in such a term

make

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paints a picture that African Americans are

slander

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criminals from the get go. The word nigger

into the

had the definition of to wear out, spoil, or to

language.

destroy. That is the most powerful slander and

The main

libel campaign you could do. It resonates and

object is

affirms to angry southerners that African

the

Americans are less than humans even if the law

definitions

was forcibly changed. Take the word destroy as

of

the key. For the south to think they are

Nigger

destroying something just from a derogatory

the

word it paints and blacks the societies view

derogatory

much worse from just terms like coon.

term we
most
associate
to social
disapprova
l to
African
Americans
.