Which excerpt from “My Heart Is Bursting” most contributes to the cultural view that freedom is essential to happiness? I moved away from those disposed for war, and I also came along to see you. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die.

Which best describes the impact of the author’s repetitive use of words that suggest similar ideas, such as “go,” “search,” and “roam”? They urge readers to take definitive and far-reaching action.

Which best describes the effect of these words? They remind the audience that Truth has had rich life experience and offers valuable wisdom. In the second paragraph of “Ain’t I a Woman?,” how does Truth appeal to listeners’ sense of logic? She demonstrates that women are just as strong as men.

What is the tone in “Ain’t I A Woman?” Her tone is very stern and condescending because she is critiquing the society at the time of her speech.

In her teens, she was united with another slave with whom she had five children, beginning in 1815. In 1827—a year before New York’s law freeing slaves was to take effect—Truth ran away with her infant Sophia to a nearby abolitionist family, the Van Wageners.

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

To former abolitionists and to the Radical Republicans in Congress who fashioned Reconstruction after the Civil War, the 15th amendment, enacted in 1870, appeared to signify the fulfillment of all promises to African Americans. Social and economic segregation were added to black America’s loss of political power.

The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1913 and allows Congress to levy a tax on income from any source without apportioning it among the states and without regard to the census.

How the Underground Railroad Worked. Most of the enslaved people helped by the Underground Railroad escaped border states such as Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland. In the deep South, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 made capturing escaped enslaved people a lucrative business, and there were fewer hiding places for them.

Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were American fugitives who were born and enslaved in Macon, Georgia. They escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.

The WGN America series, which recently wrapped its first season and has already been renewed for a second, plays like an action thriller, or a heist movie wherein the coveted commodity is freedom. The fictional Macon 7, escapees from a Georgia plantation in 1857, use their wits to dodge slave catchers and overseers.

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