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Essay Archive - History in Langston Hughes's "Negro"
History in Langston Hughes's "Negro"
The topic of Langston Hughes's "Negro" deals with an extremely
general description of the history of African Americans or blacks from the
pre-1922 era until 1922. Hughes lets the reader know about historic
experiences of blacks to show us the impact that blacks have had in past
eras. He touches on past, historical events, like the days of "Caesar" and
the "Belgians...in the Congo" (5 and 15). The murderous oppression that
Hughes speaks about uncovered when he says, "They lynch me still in
Mississippi" (16). Hughes has made his poem more understandable by the use
of such eleme....
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