... - in one instance for more than twelve hours. In other states, tax and property requirements were imposed on Black women exclusively. White lawyers harassed Black women and gave them "educational tests. (165)" Angelou begins stanza five with "Does my haughtiness offend you? / Don't you take it awful hard", a fitting description for the response that African-American women had when facing the ... the West African slave. She is then chained and stripped, a dehumanizing series of scenes symbolizing attitudes towards females - that they aren't human beings, they are merely objects. They hav...

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