1. Langston Hughes & Argumentation

2. Phillis Wheatley A slave owned by the Wheatley family
Her experience in slavery was very different from most- treated like a member of the family and given and education
Her writings are seen as more positive reflections of slavery, but her dislike for it can be found in many pieces

3. Warm Up: “On Being Brought from Africa to America” Phillis Wheatley
Using the poem, identify the following:
Speaker:
Audience:
Subject:
Purpose:
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
5 Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
"Their colour is a diabolic die."
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

4. Langston Hughes
Poet, essayist, writer who expressed the experience of being African-American in the United States.
Seen as an influential figure because he was a major voice of the Harlem Renaissance

5. Hughes Analysis
How does Hughes use figurative language to support his argument?