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In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," Hughes' description of the Mississippi river is symbolic of

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In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", Langston Hughes' description of the mississippi river is symbolic of how black people see the the many rivers that their ancestors have seen.
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