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Still I Rise, By Langston Hughes

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The poems “I, Too” by Hughes and “Still I rise” by Maya Angelou are about the ways the African American slaves were treated in white households and in the public when slavery was permitted in America. The way the slaves were treated in the houses and the community was discriminatory. In both poems, the poets explained the situations that the slaves had to go through and how slaves reacted to the maltreatment of whites. In the poem “I.Too” by Hughes referred to each white households and how the owners treated them when guests came. The slaves in the white household were to eat in the kitchen when there were guests coming in. They were not permitted to eat in the dining room with the guests because they had different skin color from the whites.
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