The use of diction allows the reader to experience the struggle and fighting that people of the time faced.The colored people were facing death, but believed that their hunters would honor them in their death, “In vain; then even the monsters we defy, Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!” (7&8). The colored ignore their deaths even though it’s inevitable since the whites are bounded by a silent oath. Later in time the colored are given respect for the injustice they bravely fought against. Additionally, the hunted had refused to back down and continued to the death, “Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!” (14). Even while they were being slaughter by “wolves” and in a sealed