1st Louisiana Native Guard Essays

Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard is a collection of poems highlighting the childhood of her life and honoring her mother. Additionally, Trethewey speaks about the racial background of the Deep South where she grew up and one of the first black regiments who were called into service during the Civil War, the Louisiana Native Guards. Trethewey includes sonnets and monuments to express the meaning behind her poetry. Throughout the collection of poems, there are certain poems that are very apparent

One could walk into almost any third grade classroom, and ask the children what the fifteenth president of the United States did. It is likely that they would instantly reply “Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves!” Simple knowledge such as this is well known throughout America's population, but there are very few who can tell you the names of the men who set the stage for the actions taken by their more popular successors. In the case of slavery, one of the preliminary presidents that contributed to