... since slavery, passed down from generation to generation - or, in a sense, "written down in history with bitter, twisted lies." In chapter two of WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER, the passage briefly describes how poorly records were kept and how flexible history was of manipulating the law to directly ... where African-Americans were victims were ever reported or recorded (2-33, W&W). This is an example of selective processing, which Angelou referred to with the first two lines of the poem. Neither History nor the law was kind to African-American slaves (the 1640 John Punch ruling exemplified the...

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