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URGENT PLEASE!!!! Create a poem that captures the reality of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Make sure your poem addresses the political, economic, and social impact of slavery. please help me i would do this myself but ive never really been good at poems so i really need help with this

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Answer:

Is it enough?

They dragged us from home

Tied and fastened

Most of us fainted along the way

But that was not enough.

Suppressed and oppressed us

Offended and multiplied

We were denied our language, our religion and our freedom

But that was not enough.

They have enriched our expense

They built great empires, commerce and prisperity

We are left with only prejudice, racism and aggression

But that was not enough.

We are still rejected today

Our descendants have a false freedom

They reap the fruits of imposition, colonialism, violence and domination

And that is still not enough.

Step-by-step explanation:

The above poem was written in 4 stanzas, each containing 4 verses. The poem was written in free verse, that is, it has no rhymes.

The poem has an African speaker who was bought as a slave and participated in the slave trafficking system. This speaker has a panoramic view from his departure on a black ship to forced labor on the farms and how it resulted in the lives of his descendants, that is, in the lives of African Americans.

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