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Analysis Of Quincy Troupe's Poem In Texas Grass

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These men did all in their power to free slaves. One of them was a slave, Frederick Douglass, but his master's wife helped him. She would give him books to read and taught him how to write. Robert Hayden, an African American, wrote how one day slavery would be over and they would be able to be successful. Quincy Troupe wrote the poem "In Texas Grass," explaining people about the vivid and poignant legacy of being a slave. The poem explains the conditions the freed slaves lived in after being freed. Frederick Douglass lived, in Baltimore, as a slave for about seven years. His mistress, Mrs. Auld, taught him to read and to write. His mistress had to stop teaching him everything because her husband told her to stop. She had to become cruel because
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