History 101
It was a rape of a nation how they captured and caught us like cattle sold us and brought us to destroy family roots they raped our mother's and daughter's constitutioned and lawed us distorted truth that they taught us we rebelled they fought us fathers and sons they slaughtered split family between borders anit no yes sir master anit no taking no orders anit no picking no cotton anit no working no fields so stand up black man and tell me how do you feel I feel proud to be a black man black man....
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About the history of slavery and standing up to it...
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Written on April 15, 2000
Submitted by George21222 on January 01, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Characters | 504 |
Words | 96 |
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Stanza Lengths | 1 |
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